Lilith

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
  2. The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
  3. The "dark moon" or "black moon", a fictitious invisible second moon of Earth proposed by astrologers in the early 20th century. Now often interpreted as the position of the apogee of the actual Moon, or as the empty focus of the Moon's elliptical orbit (Earth occupying the other focus).
  4. A female given name from Hebrew.
noun
  1. A type of female Mesopotamian demon, typically seen as coming to men in dreams and as endangering women during pregnancy or childbirth.

Word forms

Lilith liliths

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית (lîlîṯ).

Related words

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