Lucifer
Bible Usage:
- Lucifer used once.
- Bible Reference: Isaiah 14:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1966 Used 1 time
Brilliant star, a title given to the king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:12) to denote his glory.
bringing light
Nebuchadnezzar called Lucifer
Isaiah 14:12
Satan
(light-bearer), found in (Isaiah 14:12) coupled with the epithet "son of the morning," clearly signifies a "bright star," and probably what we call the morning star. In this passage it is a symbolical representation of the king of Babylon in his splendor and in his fall. Its application, from St. Jerome downward, to Satan in his fall from heaven arises probably from the fact that the Babylonian empire is in Scripture represented as the type of tyrannical and self idolizing power, and especially connected with the empire of the Evil One in the Apocalypse.
LU'CIFER, noun [Latin lux, lucis, light, and fero, to bring.]
1. The planet Venus, so called from its brightness.
2. Satan.
And when he falls, he falls like lucifer never to hope again.
LUCIFE'RIAN, adjective Pertaining to Lucifer, or to the Luciferians.
LUCIFE'RIANS, noun A sect that followed Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in the fourth century. They held to the carnal nature of the soul, and that there is no place for repentance for such as fall.
LUCIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin lucifer, supra.] Giving light; affording light or means of discovery.