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Is Lucifer in the Bible?

Is Lucifer in the Bible?

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The current answer

The name appears once, inside a taunt against a Babylonian king. It means the planet Venus, and it was never Satan's.

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The word "Lucifer" appears exactly once in the King James Bible, at Isaiah 14:12, inside a poem the text itself introduces as a taunt against the king of Babylon.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Isaiah 14:4, 12; King James Version, bedrock

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"Lucifer" is simply Latin for "light-bringer," the ordinary Roman word for the morning star, the planet Venus at dawn.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Jerome, Latin Vulgate; Isaiah 14:12, bedrock

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The Hebrew helel means the shining one, the morning star, which is the planet Venus, the brightest thing in the pre-dawn sky.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Isaiah 14:12

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Christian interpreters had other texts about a heavenly fall on their minds: Jesus's line "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven" (Luke 10:18) and the dragon "thrown down" in Revelation 12.

Imported citation, not independently checked: Luke 10:18; Revelation 12; Origen; Tertullian

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