The Greek name for this planet was variously Phosphoros (also meaning "light-bringer") or Heosphoros (meaning "dawn-bringer").
In Roman folklore, Lucifer ("light-bringer" in Latin) was the name of the planet Venus, though it was often personified as a male figure bearing a torch. Lucifer (the morning star) represented as a winged child pouring light from a jar. A similar name used by the Roman poet Catullus for the planet in its evening aspect is "Noctifer" (Night-Bringer). In Greco-Roman civilization, it was often personified and considered a god and in some versions considered a son of Aurora (the Dawn).
Īs a name for the planet in its morning aspect, "Lucifer" (Light-Bringer) is a proper noun and is capitalized in English. The translators of this version took the word from the Latin Vulgate, which translated הֵילֵל by the Latin word lucifer (uncapitalized), meaning "the morning star", "the planet Venus", or, as an adjective, "light-bringing". Modern scholarship generally translates the term in the relevant Bible passage ( Isaiah 14:12), where the Greek Septuagint reads ὁ ἑωσφόρος ὁ πρωὶ, as "morning star" or "shining one" rather than as a proper noun, Lucifer, as found in the Latin Vulgate.Īs a name for the Devil in Christian theology, the more common meaning in English, "Lucifer" is the rendering of the Hebrew word הֵילֵל, hêlēl, (pronunciation: hay-lale) in Isaiah given in the King James Version of the Bible. The entity's name was subsequently absorbed into Christianity as a name for the devil. Lucifer is one of various figures in folklore associated with the planet Venus. Planet Venus in alignment with Mercury (above) and the Moon (below)
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