“Lucifer” was NOT originally Satan’s name. It was a translation choice and the context is way more specific than most people realize. In Isaiah 14, the prophet introduces a taunt directed at the king of Babylon (see Isaiah 14:4). Then comes the famous line in Isaiah 14:12: the Hebrew phrase “hêlēl ben-šāḥar” is commonly understood as “shining one / morning star So how did Helel become Lucifer? When Jerome translated Isaiah into Latin for the Vulgate (late 4th–early 5th century), he rendered Isai