Why was Lilith removed from the KJV 1611?

Question

Isaiah 34:14

I can find no reference of her in many of the versions, rather instead I find what Lilith is translated to such as an owl. I did find her in my Hebrew Old Testament as לילית

Answer 1

A woman with an opinion! she must be evil!- that's why in a nutshell.. she raised too many questions

Answer 2

Because Lilith is an old Hebrew legend. She is fable. It was stories saying that she was a demon who left Adam to be with Satan and created the Mythical monsters. Such as Succubus, and Satyr. It wasn't until late medieval Jewish times when Lilith was actually associated to the bible. As for the mention in Isaiah - here is a literal translation from Hebrew into English...

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

If you are referring to "Lilith", I don't think that you will find her in Roman Catholic or Greek Orthodox Bibles either, because she never was in the Bible in the first place.

The story of Lilith (as Adam's first wife) is found only in Jewish folk legends.

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...The only reference to Lilith in the Bible (Old or New Testaments) is Isaiah 34:14, probably written around 540 BC; it's a description of desolation, jackals and ravens among nettles and briers, etc.: "Goat demons shall greet each other; there too the lilith will repose." Most of the other creatures referenced in this poetry cannot be positively identified. The KJV, following the Vulgate, translates "the lilith" as "the night demon," confusing the lili- with the Hebrew word for night. But presumably Isaiah meant some sort of demon. ..

Answer 4

she was a night demon said to have talons.
"The screech owl translation of the KJV is without precedent, and apparently together with the "owl" (yanšup, probably a water bird) in 34:11, and the "great owl" (qippoz, properly a snake,) of 34:15 an attempt to render the eerie atmosphere of the passage by choosing suitable animals for difficult to translate Hebrew words. It should be noted that this particular species of owl is associated with the vampiric Strix of Roman legend

Answer 5

I've never heard of Lilith even being in any scripture.

Isaiah 34:14: Desert creatures will meet with hyenas,
and wild goats will bleat to each other;
there the night creatures will also repose
and find for themselves places of rest.

Answer 6

Because free thinking women are a danger and should be burned at the stake. They can't be allowed to have freedom or control. Or so the church believed.

Remember, the churches presented some of the biggest opposition to the women's rights movement - something that is very seldom remembered (Along with things such as the Vatican's official support and praise for Nazi Germany and their discrimination against the jews).

Answer 7

After Lilith turned up on the TV show "Frazier" there was no longer any need for the very short and cryptic statement about her, that we find in early versions of Isaiah.

Answer 8

The stories of Lilith were not written until decades after Jesus had come and gone.

Answer 9

Adam was a polygamist.

It's God's chosen way, and if the world were ready to accept it in its pure form, we'd have it today instead of people using it for evil purposes such as sexual gratification.

Abraham, Isaac, David, Solomon, Adam all had multiple wives.

Answer 10

Because, people added that name to the modern Bibles.