Child of the Morning Star...Lucifer

Since the Hebrew word in this verse occurs only once in the whole Old Testament, it was perhaps easy for English translators to follow this interpretation of the Latin translators. Lucifer was the Latin name for the planet Venus when it appears as the morning star. The Liberty Annotated Study Bible confirmed that “the name Lucifer is actually the Latin designation for the morning star” (p. 1038). The 1968 Cassell’s New Latin Dictionary indicated that the Latin word “lucifer” comes from two root words meaning “light-bearing, light-bringing” and that it would be translated into English as “Lucifer, the morning star, the planet Venus.” According to the English-Latin section of this dictionary, the translation of “morning-star” in English is given as “lucifer” in Latin. The Oxford Latin Dictionary gave two definitions for lucifer: “light-bringing, light-bearing” and “the morning star” (p. 1045). The Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories affirmed that Lucifer is “a Latin word originally, meaning ’light-bringing, morning star” (p. 309). At its entry for day-star, John White listed “lucifer” as its meaning in Latin (Latin-English Dictionary, p. 100). For Lucifer, this definition is given: “the morning-star, the planet Venus” (p. 355).