Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3917
לִילִית
lilithlee-leeth'
night-creature
1 use in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lîylîyth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3917is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3917
a night spectre
The King James renders it: screech owl.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
lilith is rendered "night-creature". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Isaiah 34:14The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
The first use
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
Isaiah 34:14לִּילִ֔ית
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- night-creature1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לִּילִ֔ית1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Isaiah
one use
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
- לִּילִ֔יתlilitnoun · feminine singulartagged: night-creature
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.