Who is Lilith from the bible?

Question

Isaiah 34:14 Was she really Adam's first wife or does no one know?

It talks about this in the Hebrew bible

Answer 1

It's not a who but a what.

'lilith' is a creature appearing in the description of Edom’s utter desolation and of the things inhabiting its ruins. (Isa 34:14) The Hebrew word has been variously translated as “screech owl” (KJ), “night-monster” (AS), “nightjar” (NE, NW), and “night hag” (RS), while The Jerusalem Bible prefers simply to transliterate the name as “Lilith.”

Many scholars endeavor to show that the Hebrew term is a loanword from ancient Sumerian and Akkadian and that it derives from the name of a mythological female demon of the air (Lilitu). Professor G. R. Driver, however, considers the Hebrew word (li·lith′) to derive from a root word denoting “every kind of twisting motion or twisted object,” even as the Hebrew word la′yil (or lai′lah), meaning “night,” suggests a “wrapping itself round or enfolding the earth.” Such derivation of li·lith′, he suggests, may likely point to the nightjar as both a nocturnal feeding bird and one noted for its rapid twisting and turning flight as it pursues moths, beetles, and other night-flying insects. As quoted by Driver, Tristram, the naturalist, described the nightjar as “becoming very active towards dusk, when they hawk about at great speed and with intricate turnings after their food.”—Palestine Exploration Quarterly, London, 1959, pp. 55, 56.

Answer 2

the fairly some older KJV and NIV bibles have a passage that mentions Lilith as a demon haunting waste places. Isaiah 34:14 greater moderen bibles have all edited her out. the only different place you come across her is in some fairly misogynist rabbinical writings from approximately 900 to the 1500 advert even with the shown fact that in case you look at Genesis a million you have Adam and Eve created on the comparable time from the comparable stuff, and then in Genesis 2 you have Adam being transported into den, positioned to sleep and Eve being created out of Adams flesh (rib). So i could guess Lilith is Genesis a million and Eve is Genesis 2 after Lilith eloped with the demon or angel or despite. I additionally suspect that Lilith if Lilith were in Eden she could never have tempted Adam with an apple She could have instructed him to get his very own damn dinner instead..

Answer 3

Adam's one and ONLY wife was Eve. As for Lilith, I don't know who she is, I have a King James Version Bible and Isaiah 34:14 reads The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beast of the Island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. Nowhere in Isaiah 34 doesit say anything about any Lilith, unless she's the owl.

Answer 4

This is the hebrew version in the old testament from which the Torah is based. It states that Lilith was indeed Adam's first wife, but she was not a good woman. God took pity on Adam and created Eve, the good and submissive wife. The Christian text makes no mention of Lilith.

Answer 5

this problems" that of adams first wife" was an explanation offered by jewish scholars in the middle ages to explain the fact that, in the genesis account man and woman seem to be created twice. In the first instance they are created together- a few verses later adam is alone and eve is created from his side. To account for this, Jewish scholars of the middle ages proposed the theory that adam had been married twice and that Lilith, his wife at the first, refused to submit to him. She is taken away and later is said to have become a demon. Eve, the wife created from his side ,was the keeper. This situtation in the text is not a contradication nor does it mean adam was married twice, the narrative is really two stories, one a bit older then the other interposed on top of each other.

Answer 6

In the Babylonian tradition, there is a triad of demons with whom Lilith is associated. The male is called Lilu, and the two females are Lilitu, a frigid, barren, & husbandless demon who roamed the night searching for men to seduce or drink their blood, and Ardat Lili, the 'maid of desolation.'

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 only briefly in the Hebrew Bible in Isaiah 34:14.

In Jewish traditions, Lilith was created with Adam from the dust of the earth, & became his first wife. She was stubborn, though, & refused to be subservient to her husband. Instead of becoming Adam's servant, she left him & was turned out of Paradise. However, before God created Eve, He sent 3 angels to try to convince Lilith to return to Adam. She refused, & God cursed her by sentencing 100 of her offspring to die each day. After her expulsion from Paradise, however, she slept once more with Adam, & bore the Shedim, Lilin, & Rauchin.

Later, in Kabbalistic circles, Lilith became the mistress of Sammael.

It is mistakenly thought that Lilith's name was derived from the Hebrew word lailah, which means 'night.' This was probably derived from the similarity of the two words, and the idea that Lilith was mostly active at night.

Answer 7

ok. for all those who read the King James bible. It has been edited so far out of context, you are the only christians I will accept that don't know their bible.

"Wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too Lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. There shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow."

Yes, she was Adam's first 'wife' of three. She left the garden of Eden because she refused to be subservient to Adam in any way, and rightly so, since they were created from the same dust.

Adam went whining to god and said "Man, she dumped me" God sent his posse of three angels to bring her back. She refused, happily spawning over a hundred children a day with various demons. she was punished, she didn't go back, the end.

Now, any more questions go to wikipedia, you'll get better answers there for the most part.

Answer 8

She's mentioned in other Jewish text which were not voted to be included in the christian bible (you know it was put together by voting on various writings, right?)

Anyway, the story is that Lilith refused to take a submissive role to Adam and wanted to be his equal, so god kicked her out of the garden of eden.

Which is why the name Lilith is often adored by feminists. She's the biblical patron saint of gender equality.

Answer 9

Isaiah 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

Are you nuts? Adam hand only one wife and that was Eve. Where in this scripture do you see what you posted in your question?

Answer 10

Some say she was Adam's first wife and that she embodied the serpent in eden to seduce Eve, wich she was jealous of...That is why (some say) that God put ennimity between her posterity and Eve's posterity.
Now, the storie goes that when she was banned from eden, she went into a cave to procreate with fallen angels. (her posterity).
Some also say her posterity lives in parrallel with us...on earth, but in a parrallel dimention.