For the ones that keep saying that Lilith was Adams first wife, can you please show me the verse where she is mentioned?
I have read the Bible quite a few times and I have never seen her name anywhere so where did the name come from and what scripture?
James O
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Not there
Some read into the end of Gen 1 'male and female he created them' to mean that there was a fromer Mrs Adam before Eve but it is just reading into a text what is not there
Anonymous
There are legends that Adam had a wife before Eve who was named Lilith, but this is not found in the Bible. The legends vary significantly, but they all essentially agree that Lilith left Adam because she did not want to submit to him. According to the legends, Lilith was an evil, wicked woman who committed adultery with Satan and produced a race of evil creatures. None of this is true. There is no biblical basis whatsoever for these concepts. There is no one in the Bible named Lilith.
The passage most often pointed to as evidence for Lilith is Isaiah 34:14, which in the NRSV reads, "there too Lilith shall repose." This is a poor translation. Every other major translation of the Bible reads something to the effect of "night creature" or "screech owl." Even if "demon monster named Lilith" was the proper translation of the Hebrew word, Adam is nowhere even hinted at in this passage or its context. Whatever the Lilith was, it is not given any connection whatsoever to Adam or Creation.
Another commonly used support for Lilith is the differing Creation accounts in Genesis chapters 1-2. Some claim that the woman in Genesis 1 was Lilith, with the woman in Genesis 2 being Eve. This is completely ludicrous. Rather, Genesis chapter 2 is a "closer look" at the creation of Adam and Eve as recorded in Genesis chapter 1. The Bible specifically says that Adam and Eve were the first human beings ever created (Genesis 1:26-28; 2:18-25). This "Lilith" myth is popular in some radical feminist movements because Lilith is an example of a woman refusing to submit to male headship. While there are myths outside of the Word of God regarding Lilith, her complete absence from Scripture demonstrates that she is nothing more than a myth.
Isabella
"Lamia" represents the original Lilith, a spirit of the night who in Hebrew legend is the demon wife of Adam.
Gnosticism
A collective name for a large number of greatly-varying and pantheistic-idealistic sects, which flourished from some time before the Christian Era down to the fifth century, and which, while borrowing the phraseology and some of the tenets of the chief religions of the day, and especially of Christianity, held matter to be a deterioration of spirit, and the whole universe a depravation of the Deity, and taught the ultimate end of all being to be the overcoming of the grossness of matter and the return to the Parent-Spirit, which return they held to be inaugurated and facilitated by the appearance of some God-sent Saviour.
Lady Prism
Isaah 34:14... she is the screech owl.
Also, this question was asked recently by someone else... here is a link to her questions and the many, many answers...
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Lilith is not a Christian figure... she was originally a Sumatran diety and was later embraced by Judaism...
There is one reference to her in the Torah (although the translation makes this reference subjective) and the Talmud has 4 references. The Zohar (Tzohar) has the full story of Lilith... it is part of the Jewish Kabbalah.
Anonymous
She is not in the bible, she is the subject of stories from oral tradition. In the Hebrew tradition, prior to widespread literacy, many of the stories of the bible were shared orally. This led to many other stories being told based on the stories in the bible. This tradition is called 'Midrash'.