What is the meaning of “Lucifer” in Hebrew? In the Hebrew Bible, the relevant passage uses the term “helel ben shachar”, which translates roughly to “shining one, son of the dawn” (Vasileiadis, 2013). This poetic phrase refers to the planet Venus as the morning star. The Latin “lucifer”, meaning “light-bearer”, was an attempt to capture this imagery of a bright celestial body. It is crucial to understand that the original Hebrew context does not present this figure as a proper…

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