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Lucifer

1 passage cited, from 4 classic reference works.

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Isaiah 14:12Easton · Smith · Nave Nebuchadnezzar called by this name
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

In the reference works

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references

Brilliant star, a title given to the king of Babylon (Isa. 14:12) to denote his glory.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 1 references

(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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references

lu'-si-fer, loo'-si-fer: The morning star, an epithet of the planet Venus.

See ASTROLOGY, 11.

In the topical indexes

Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · 1 references, grouped by sub-topic

→ Nebuchadnezzar called by this name Isa 14:12

Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.

Lucifer

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