In Hebrew the word behind Lucifer is helel (הֵילֵל), the shining one. Isaiah gives the king of Babylon the title helel ben shahar, “shining one, son of the dawn”, and pictures him as the morning star thrown down from the sky (Isaiah 14:12). The word Lucifer never appears in the Hebrew Bible. It is the Latin Bible’s word for helel, and only later did it become a name for the devil. Isaiah’s song mocks that king with a sharp picture.…

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