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לִּילִית Lilit

Every verse in which this word stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the places the lexicon carries under this word's own entry, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

LegendaryGematria 480×1 in TanakhFirst appearance:

One verse — Yeshayahu 34:14, among the creatures of Edom's desolation: 'there lilit reposes, and finds herself rest.' A night-bird by the plain sense of the passage, the night spectre of the aggadah by the tradition's discussion. The word stands once, and that is the whole of what the books say.

Isaiah 34:14ישעיהו לד:יד

וּפָגְשׁוּ צִיִּים אֶת־אִיִּים וְשָׂעִיר עַל־רֵעֵהוּ יִקְרָא אַךְ־שָׁם הִרְגִּיעָה לִּילִית וּמָצְאָה לָהּ מָנֽוֹחַ

And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, And the satyr shall cry to his fellow; Yea, the night-monster shall repose there, And shall find her a place of rest.

Quick answers

What is the Hebrew word for lilit?

Lilit in Hebrew is לילית, with a gematria of 480 in the standard method.

How many times is the lilit mentioned in the Tanakh?

The word stands 1 time in the Tanakh, first at Isaiah 34:14.

A spelling is not a word. The bare letters לילית stand 1 time in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell a name or another word entirely, and the creature written with a particle attached is a spelling that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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