Strong's Definition
from 3915; a night spectre
KJV Usage: screech owl
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
לִילִית (li.lit) — night-creature. 1) "Lilith", name of a female goddess known as a night demon who haunts the desolate places of Edom 1a) might be a nocturnal animal that inhabits desolate places
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f
Birds
tawny owl, scops owl exact meaning unknown; possibly another name for the tawny owl, or: = type of owl with tiny ears that is a mottled gray in color; by day it perches close to the trunk of a tree, where its mottled coloring blends in with the tree bark, making the owl look like the stump of a broken branch; it has a soft, trilled call; ≈ associated with demons
1 ISA 34:14 RSV "night hag" | NIV "night creature" | NJPS "the lilith" | NJB NRSV "Lilith" | REB "nightjar"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
לִילִית n.f. Lilith (Milton Che night-hag), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate Edom; prob. borrowed fr. Bab., Is 34:14 ref