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, BEELZEBUL, BAALZEBUB

Beelzebub or See also:

• APOLLYON

Apollyon (Rev. ix . 11) . In the See also:

• TALMUD

Talmud he plays a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PART

part in the legends concerning See also:

• SOLOMON, ODES OF
• SOLOMON, PSALMS OF

Solomon . In the apocryphal See also:

• BOOK

book of See also:

• TOBIT, THE BOOK OF

Tobit (iii . 8)occurs the well-known See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of his love for Sara, the beautiful daughter of Raguel, whose seven husbands were slain in See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession by him on their respective bridal nights . At last Tobias, by burning the See also:

• HEART
• HEART, LUNG

heart and See also:

• LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

liver of a See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish, drove off the demon, who fled to See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt . From the part played by Asmodeus in this story, he has been often familiarly called the See also:

• GENIUS (from Lat. genere, gignere)

genius of matrimonial unhappiness or See also:

• JEALOUSY (adapted from Fr. jalousie, formed from jaloux, jealous, Low Lat. zelosus, Gr. j'i os, ardour, zeal, from the root seen in '&u', to boil, ferment; cf. " yeast ")

jealousy, and as such may be compared with See also:

• LILITH (Heb. lildtu, " night "; hence " night-monster ")

Lilith . Le See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage makes him the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character in his novel Le Diable boiteux . Both the word and the conception seem to have been derived originally from the See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian . The name has been taken to mean "covetous." It is in any See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case no doubt identical with the demon Aeshma of the Zend-Avesta and the See also:

• PAHLAVI, or PEHLEVI

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

dew, " demon." The first part may be See also:

• EQUIVALENT

equivalent to Aeshma, the impersonation of anger .

But W . Baudissin (See also:

• HERZOG, HANS (1819–1894)
• HERZOG, JOHANN JAKOB (1805-1882)

Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie) prefers to derive it from ish, to drive, set in See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion; whence ish-See also:

• MIN

min, See also:

• DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving, impetuous . The See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend of Asmodeus is given fully in the Jewish See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Encyclopaedia,s.v . See also the articles in the Encyclopaedia Biblica,See also:

• HASTINGS
• HASTINGS, FRANCIS
• HASTINGS, FRANK ABNEY (1794-1828)
• HASTINGS, WARREN (1732-1818)

Hastings' See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary of the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible, and Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie .