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The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel. The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.He appeared in the King James Version of the Bible in Isaiah [1] and before that in the Vulgate (the late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible), [2] not as the name of a devil but as the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), [3] [4] meaning "the ...
Lucifer, called 'Light Bearer', as the Latin word lucifer meant "light-bringing" Luciferase, a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes used in bioluminescence; The Light Bearer, a 1994 novel by Donna Gillespie; Phosphorus, etymologically derived from the Greek: φως = light, φέρω = carry, which roughly translates as "light-bringer"
The Latin word corresponding to Greek "Phosphorus" is "Lucifer". It is used in its astronomical sense both in prose [ 9 ] and poetry. [ 10 ] Poets sometimes personify the star, placing it in a mythological context.
The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, [4] which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer. [5] [6] The Biblical Hebrew word הֵילֵל, which occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible, [7] has been transliterated as hêlêl, [7] or heylel.
Lucifer (Latin) "The Morning Star": The bringer of light, representing pride and enlightenment, the element of air, the direction of the east, and the stick (which ...
With the application to the Devil of the morning-star story, "Lucifer" was then popularly applied to him as a proper name. The term lucifer , the Latin name (literally "Light-Bearer" or "Light-Bringer") for the morning star (the planet Venus in its morning appearances), is often given to the Devil in popular stories.
The Latin word lucifer, as introduced in the late 4th-century AD Vulgate, gave rise to the name for a fallen angel. [48] Christian tradition has associated Satan not only with the image of the fallen "morning star" in Isaiah 14:12, but also with the denouncing in Ezekiel 28:11–19 of the King of Tyre, who is spoken of as having been a "cherub".
The name Heylel, meaning "morning star" (or, in Latin, Lucifer), [c] was a name for Attar, the god of the planet Venus in Canaanite mythology, [121] [122] who attempted to scale the walls of the heavenly city, [123] [121] but was vanquished by the god of the sun. [123]