This Hebrew word appears in the Masoretic Text only once in the book of the prophet Isaiah (Is. 34:14), in a passage where the prophet describes the desolation that will come to Edom.
The sacred author mentions a whole series of beings that in the popular mentality live in solitude. There the satyrs (LXX) and wild cats appear, and also Lilit, which in Babylonian demonology is "the female demon of the nights."
Lilit is, in Talmudic literature, a witch girl who intervened in the temptation of Adam and who is the mother of demons.
It is not possible that the prophet Isaiah believes in all this mythology when he mentions Lilith, but it is very certain that he used her name precisely as a literary figure that evoked images well known to his contemporaries, in the way that the mention of Hitler awakens them in us men of the last quarter of the 20th century.
The passage has a clear message: in the loneliness, darkness and desolation of the evil created by human rebellion live the strangest creatures alien to the good of man.
Meaning of LILITH
This Hebrew word appears in the Masoretic Text only once in the book of the prophet Isaiah (Is. 34:14), in a passage where the prophet describes the desolation that will come to Edom.
