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ASMODEUS , or AsImIEDAI, an evil demon who appears in later Jewish tradition as " See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of demons." He is sometimes identified with See also:Beelzebub or See also:Apollyon (Rev. ix. 11). In the See also:Talmud he plays a See also:great See also:part in the legends concerning See also:Solomon. In the apocryphal See also:book of See also:Tobit (iii. 8)occurs the well-known See also:story of his love for Sara, the beautiful daughter of Raguel, whose seven husbands were slain in See also:succession by him on their respective bridal nights. At last Tobias, by burning the See also:heart and See also:liver of a See also:fish, drove off the demon, who fled to See also:Egypt. From the part played by Asmodeus in this story, he has been often familiarly called the See also:genius of matrimonial unhappiness or See also:jealousy, and as such may be compared with See also:Lilith. Le See also:Sage makes him the See also:principal See also:character in his novel Le Diable boiteux. Both the word and the conception seem to have been derived originally from the See also:Persian. The name has been taken to mean "covetous." It is in any See also:case no doubt identical with the demon Aeshma of the Zend-Avesta and the See also:Pahlavi texts. But the meaning is not certain. It is generally agreed that the second part of the name Asmodeus is the same as the Zend daewa, See also:dew, " demon." The first part may be See also:equivalent to Aeshma, the impersonation of anger.
But W. Baudissin (See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie) prefers to derive it from ish, to drive, set in See also:motion; whence ish-See also:min, See also:driving, impetuous.
The See also:legend of Asmodeus is given fully in the Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia,s.v. See also the articles in the Encyclopaedia Biblica,See also:Hastings' See also:Dictionary of the See also:Bible, and Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie.
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