who is lillith?

Question

saw it in a previous answer, i think the person was maybe referring to the bible?

Answer 1

Urban myths say she was the first wife of Adam. She's a demon that likes to eat children and pregnant women.

Answer 2

Lillith is a Jewish fairy-tale character, possibly based in gnosticism. She does not appear in the Christian Bible, and I'm pretty sure she does not appear in the Jewish Torah.

The story goes, Lillith was Adam's "first wife", before Adam was "separated" from Eve (who was still within his genetics). Lillith was not human; she was a djinni, or genie. Supposedly, she tried to usurp Adam's authority over creation, and was handed an annulment and kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Supposedly after all this is when God took the piece out of Adam's side, and used that material to form Eve.

Answer 3

The only Lillith I know of is Fraser's wife on Cheers.

Answer 4

Only Lillith I've heard of was married to Frasier Crane.

May also have been a biblical one too, though. Don't know.

Answer 5

Lilith is thought be the demon of waste places who originally lived in the garden of the Sumerian goddess, Innana, queen of heaven. She is mentioned briefly in the Sumerian story Gilgamesh and the Huluppu-Tree" (2000 BCE) although it is now being questioned whether the name actually translates as "Lilith".

"Years passed, the tree matured and grew big. But Inanna found herself unable to cut down the tree. For at its base the snake 'who knows no charm' had built its nest. In its crown, the Zu-bird -- a mythological creature which at times wrought mischief -- had placed its young. In the middle Lilith, the maid of desolation, had built her house. And so poor Inanna, the light-hearted and ever-joyful maid, shed bitter tears. And as the dawn broke and her brother, the sun-god Utu, arose from his sleeping chamber, she repeated to him tearfully all that had befallen her huluppu-tree."

So basicly she is a demon-

Answer 6

The passage in Genesis 1:27 — "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female he created them" (before describing a mate being made of Adam's rib and being called Eve in Genesis 2:22) is sometimes believed to be an indication that Adam had a wife before Eve.

A medieval reference to Lilith as the first wife of Adam is the anonymous The Alphabet of Ben-Sira, written sometime between the 8th and 11th centuries.

Lilith is described as refusing to assume a subservient role to Adam during sexual intercourse and so deserting him ("She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.'").

Lilith promptly uttered the name of God, took to the air, and left the Garden, settling on the Red Sea coast.

Two important observations should be made here: Lilth left the Garden of her own accord, before the Fall of Man, and is without Original Sin.

She knows the name of God, making her an extremely powerful, and perhaps unique, cosmological being, as knowing God's true name is to have control of Him. [citation needed]

Lilith then went on to mate with Samael and various other demons she found beside the Red Sea, creating countless lilin. Adam urged God to bring Lilith back, so three angels were dispatched after her.

When the angels, Senoy, Sansenoy, and Semangelof, made threats to kill one hundred of Lilith's demonic children for each day she stayed away, she countered that she would prey eternally upon the descendants of Adam and Eve, who could be saved only by invoking the names of the three angels. She did not return to Adam.

Answer 7

No I don't think she made it into the bible.

She was adams first wife. She is mentioned in some scripture but not anything that did not make the cut as bible material.

Answer 8

Bebe Newirth.
Star of stage and screen.
Frazier Crane's ex-wife, Lilith on "Frazier", which was a spinoff of "Cheers".
Frazier was "Kramer" on Cheers, and his wife was Lilith at the time.
Seeing her onstage is close to a biblical experience.

Answer 9

Supposedly the orignial First Woman ever created, even before Eve.

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Answer 10

She is Niles ex-wife on Fraser.