Lilith

Borrowed from Hebrew לִילִית‎ (lîlîṯ).

Lilith

1. (mythology) A Mesopotamian storm demon, a bearer of disease and death.
2. (Judaism) The first wife of Adam in Jewish folklore.
   • 1881, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Body’s Beauty”, in Ballads and Sonnets, London: Ellis and White, […], OCLC 946729536, page 240:

     Of Adam's first wife, Lilith, it is told / (The witch he loved before the gift of Eve,) / That, ere the snake's, her sweet tongue could deceive, / And her enchanted hair was the first gold.

3. (astrology) The "dark moon" or "black moon", a second moon of Earth erroneously proposed by astrologers; now usually interpreted as the empty focus of the ellipse of the actual Moon's orbit.
4. A female given name from Hebrew.

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