Who was Lilith ?

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.

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[amusingmyslf]

Go Lilith! Never submit!

[RAKmageddon]

If Lucifer was an angel, a created being, they were apparently created without genitalia and therefore, could not breed anything. All angels r/ were created beings. For some reason, only mankind has the animal ability of procreation. He was an angel once.

[LambdaKore]

According to the story, God created Adam and Lilith at the same time and in the same fashion (so that they were equals). Lilith refused to submit to Adam (she refused to lie beneath him during intercourse), and eventually, she has enough and leaves. She speaks the true name of God (I don't know how she learned it), and by its power, flies away over the ocean.

[LambdaKore]

"There are legends that Adam had a wife before Eve who was named Lilith, but this is not found in the Bible." Not, it's not in the Bible -- you can find it by looking in the Apocrypha (a collection of gospels that were not approved for inclusion in the Bible by the Nicien Council for one reason or another).

[systris]

do you understand that there was other biblical canon that the nicean council rejected that mentions lilith and in the jewish and muslim texts? just cause it aint in your abridged selected-by-men anthology of myths and contradictions, oops i mean bible, doesnt mean that the myth/concept of Lilith isnt a valid one, especially since Lilith was revered as a pagan god before the advent of christianity.