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Who was Lilith in the bible?

I've been doing this study on mythical creatures, and it says that Lilith appears in the bible, but I can't find it in there. Could somebody possible tell me what it says about her and what she is?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    She shows up as a screech owl in Isaiah 34:14. The word translated as "screech owl" is Lilith in Hebrew.

    http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Isa&c=3...

  • 1 decade ago

    She's not mentioned in the Holy Bible but it is written in other templates found. Some books of the bible were with held from the bible. The texts on Lilith are somewhere overseas but because I have studied her I know that she is supposedly Adams first wife who rebelled against God's decision to place Adam over her so she made an alliance with Lucifer AKA the devil. You would have to do a hebraic study to find more info on her.

  • 1 decade ago

    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.

  • 1 decade ago

    According to mythology, Lilith was Adam's first wife. But she had a personality and a mind of her own, and refused to have sex with Adam on top. So God punished her and replaced her with Eve, and somewhere along the line she became a demon. But although she is referenced in the Bible (by Jesus, I think, although not sure), her story is not written in the Bible.

    If I find a link I will include it in an edit.

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  • 1 decade ago

    In the imagination of certain groups of women Lilith was the first wife of Adam who rebelled and wouldn't obey. It comes from a wrongly interpreted Jewish Midrash. By the physical description of Adam and the manner of his creation and Eve's creation 'they' miss the point. Look in the Encyclopedia Judaica.

  • 1 decade ago

    Lilith is not in the Bible. I believe she's in some other books though. People who believe she existed think she came before Eve.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    She is a screech owl in the Christian Bible, but Jewish mythology says she was Adam's first wife.

    Although her name is not mentioned, she appears in the creation story where man & woman were made simultaneously, and equal. This was Lilith. The other creation story has Eve being made from Adam's rib. The order of creation of animals and humans is also different in the two accounts. So taken together, humans were created, then animals, then a second human creation. (In some interpretations)

    The Book of Isaiah 34:14, describing the desolation of Edom, is the only occurrence of Lilith in the Hebrew Bible:

    Hebrew (ISO 259): pagšu ṣiyyim et-ʾiyyim w-saʿir ʿal-rēʿhu yiqra ʾakšam hirgiʿah lilit u-maṣʾah lah manoḫ

    morpho-syntactic analysis: "yelpers meet-[perfect] howlers; hairy-ones cry-[imperfect] to fellow. liyliyth reposes-[perfect], acquires-[perfect] resting-place."

    KJV: "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."

  • 5 years ago

    She is real. She is the first wife of Adam. If you read and study your scriptures there are several accountancies of her existing prior to Eve. However due to her rebellion toward Adam studies says she called God's name 3 times then flew away. After 3 angelical messengers came to he commanding her to return to Adam and she refused, then another wife was created for Adam who many know as Eve. Studies shows that Lilith was the serpent who spoken to Eve in the garden of Eden being jealous of Adam having a wife that was submitted to him she set out to cause death upon her. Remember in the beginning Adam & his wife was given clearance to eat of every tree in the garden but after the rebellion of Lilith and the creation of Eve they was commanded to eat of every tree except of the tree in the mist of the garden " the tree of knowledge" that is the tree that Lilith attached herself to which made it the tree of knowledge. Lilith being in commute with (Lucifer her true father) had gain knowledge of evil as well as knowing good. It was the evil knowledge that Lilith had that made that particular tree the tree of knowledge because that tree was her dwelling point as she watched Adam in the garden.

  • 1 decade ago

    Lilith is not in the Bible. She may be in the Apocrypha. The legend is that she was Adam's first wife. She is supposed to be an Angel that God gave to Adam as his wife. She was po'ed, thinking that this was an insult to her position as an Angel and took off. She is supposed to have joined forces with Lucifer in his rebellion.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Lilith is NOT in the Bible

    Lilith is a Jewish folk story and was sort of the first wife of Adam in the folk story. Liluth is from the imagination of man, not form the sciptures of God.

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