Who was Lilith?

Question

I was trying to find out more about a Lilith that was supposedly created before Eve.

Answer 1

Late medieval Jewish legend portrays her as the first wife of Adam. Considering Adam inferior, Lilith left the Garden of Eden of her own free will. Adam then bade three angels to find Lilith and bring her back. When Lilith refused, God punished her by commanding that she slay 100 of her children, called Lilin, each day. Lilith is also sometimes considered to be the paramour of Satan

Answer 2

Have you heard of "search engines", such as "google"?

There is a lot of information and mis-information on the Internet.


Lilith, Adam's mythological first wife

According to some::
The Torah states that: God created Adam and a woman. This woman that God created was not a good person. God then created Eve for Adam.

No matter how you understand "Torah" the idea of a wife before Eve DOES NOT OCCUR at all. This idea is a rabbinic tradition and is completely non-Biblical (and I would add, quite anti-Biblical). This first wife is referred to as "Lilith." Lilith up and left Adam, winding up in rabbinic tradition as a baby-killing demoness who seduces sleeping men. Lilith is mentioned in Isa. 34:14, though the KJV renders lilith as 'screech owl.' [Actually, some think this Lilith, this demoness, might have been the "serpent" who tempted Eve.]

Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children. In Isaiah, Lilith (לִילִית, Standard Hebrew Lilith) is a kind of night-demon or animal, translated as onokentauros in the Septuagint, as lamia "witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia, and as screech owl in the King James Version of the Bible. Lilith also appears as a night demon in the Talmud and Midrash. She is often identified as the mother of all incubi and succubi. Late medieval Jewish legend portrays her as the first wife of Adam. Considering Adam inferior, Lilith left the Garden of Eden of her own free will. Adam then bade three angels to find Lilith and bring her back. When Lilith refused, God punished her by commanding that she slay 100 of her children, called Lilin, each day. Lilith is also sometimes considered to be the paramour of Satan.

Answer 3

Frankly, it is a myth. Eve was the first woman created by God specifically for Adam. That's in the Bible -- straight from Genesis.

However, the myth goes that Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children. In Isaiah, Lilith (לִילִית, Standard Hebrew Lilith) is a kind of night-demon or animal, in the Septuagint, as lamia "witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia, and as screech owl in the King James Version of the Bible. Lilith also appears as a night demon in the Talmud and Midrash. She is often identified as the mother of all incubi and succubi. Late medieval Jewish legend portrays her as the first wife of Adam. Considering Adam inferior, Lilith left the Garden of Eden of her own free will. Adam then bade three angels to find Lilith and bring her back. When Lilith refused, God punished her by commanding that she slay 100 of her children, called Lilin, each day. Lilith is also sometimes considered to be the paramour of Satan

Answer 4

Lilith was Adam's first wife. She was a feminist and didn't want to be the one on the bottom during sex. She wanted equality. She left the Garden of Eden and shacked up with Satan. That was why God supposedly made Eve out of Adam's rib, to make women inferior. I think this was in the Jewish bible.

Shaming women and feminism is just another way to give men more power in society, which worked for thousands of years. I'm an Atheist, but I study as many religions as I can. It's best to know them if you want to understand history.

Answer 5

I will copy and paste this time. I have written it all out too many times to answer this question:

Lilith is a female Mesopotamian night demon believed to harm male children. In Isaiah, Lilith (לִילִית, Standard Hebrew Lilith) is a kind of night-demon or animal, translated as onokentauros in the Septuagint, as lamia "witch" by Hieronymus of Cardia, and as screech owl in the King James Version of the Bible. Lilith also appears as a night demon in the Talmud and Midrash. She is often identified as the mother of all incubi and succubi. Late medieval Jewish legend portrays her as the first wife of Adam. Considering Adam inferior, Lilith left the Garden of Eden of her own free will. Adam then bade three angels to find Lilith and bring her back. When Lilith refused, God punished her by commanding that she slay 100 of her children, called Lilin, each day. Lilith is also sometimes considered to be the paramour of Satan

Answer 6

Lilith was supposedly created before Eve. She was created from dust and mud etc same as Adam. She wanted to have relations on top and be the more dominant of the relationship. There are different theory and myths about her. Google it as that is how I learned about it. There is so much more to learn about her.

Answer 7

Some teachings say Adam was really a higher lifeform, created in the the spirit world. Eden, (Paradise),
Heaven, (Paradise).
This gave rise to a teaching that the "man" Adam first
mated with a spirit form of a woman, Liltih. Some claim
she was a demonic form.
I don't know if I go for all these interpretations of
interpretations.

Answer 8

in a book I read that loosely referred to greek mythology lilith was the comcubine slut of the god of war who was a demon and could take any shape

Answer 9

I got this from google.com

Lilith, the mythological first wife of Adam, and the feminine dark side of the divine.

Answer 10

I believe you can read of Lillith in the Apocrypha. She was Adam's first wife.