Meaning of "Lucero" - Isaiah 14:12 vs 2 Peter 1:19

Question

Some time ago, I was reading Isaiah 14:12 in the KJV. And then I checked my RV1960 with the same verse. And I found that it says "Lucero"

12 !Cómo caíste del cielo, oh Lucero, hijo de la mañana! Cortado fuiste por tierra, tú que debilitabas a las naciones.

And then in the same Bible says in 2 Peter 1:19

19 Tenemos también la palabra profética más segura, a la cual hacéis bien en estar atentos como a una antorcha que alumbra en lugar oscuro, hasta que el día esclarezca y el lucero de la mañana salga en vuestros corazones;

You see, Isaiah 14:12 tells us in Spanish that the enemy is "Lucero" and in 2 Peter 1:19 says that Christ is the "Lucero". But the text in Hebrew, in Spanish, and in English says in Isaiah 14:12 "Lucifer". Can you tell me if there is a Bible in Spanish that has the correct translation from Hebrew to Spanish in Isaiah 14:12?

Why would "Lucero" be applied to the enemy and to Christ?

Answer 1

Lucifer comes from the Latin Vulgate:

quomodo cecidisti de caelo lucifer qui mane oriebaris corruisti in terram qui vulnerabas gentes -- Biblia Sacra Vulgata: Iuxta Vulgatem Versionem. (1969). (electronic edition of the 3rd edition., Isa. 14:12). Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.

The meaning in Latin:

Lūcĭfer, fēri, m. A. The morning-star, the planet Venus ... -- Lewis, C. T., & Short, C. (1891). Harpers’ Latin Dictionary (p. 1080). New York; Oxford: Harper & Brothers; Clarendon Press.

In Spanish:

lucero nm : bright star -- Merriam-Webster, I. (1998). Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English dictionary. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

Thus, both mean morning star.

They are translating הֵילֵ֣ל

†הֵילֵל S1966 TWOT499a GK2122 n.m. appell. shining one, epith. of king of Babylon, אֵיךְ נָפַלְתָּ מִשָּׁמַיִם ה׳ בֶּן־שָׁ֑חַר Is 14:12 how art thou fallen, shining one, son of dawn! i.e. star of the morning. (Cf. Assyrian muštilil epith. of (Venus as) morning-star III R 57:60 OppJAS 1871, 448 Schr 1874, 337 COT ad loc.) -- Brown, F., Driver, S. R., & Briggs, C. A. (1977). Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (p. 237). Oxford: Clarendon Press.

The LXX has:

ἑωσφόρος,-ου N2M 0-1-1-5-0=7 1 Sm 30,17; Is 14,12; Ps 109 (110),3; Jb 3,9; 11,17 morning star, morning 1 Sm 30,17 *Ps 109 (110),3 πρὸ ἑωσφόρου before the morning star, before dawn, or before Lucifer-מִשַּׁחַר for MT מִשְׁחָר? Cf. TOURNAY 1960, 11–12; →NIDNTT -- Lust, J., Eynikel, E., & Hauspie, K. (2003). A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint : Revised Edition. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft: Stuttgart.

2 Peter 1:19 has:

φωσφόρος, ον bearing or giving light (Eur.+; pap., Philo); subst. ὁ φ. the morning star, Venus (Eur., Ion 1157; Ps.-Pla., Tim. Locr. 96E; 97A; Plut., Mor. 430A; 601A; 889A al.; Cicero, Nat. Deor. 2, 20; Vett. Val. 236, 6; Sib. Or. 5, 516) fig. 2 Pt 1:19. JBoehmer, ZNW 22, ’23, 228-33; FBoll, Sternglaube u. Sterndeutung4 ’31, 47f.—FJDölger, Antike u. Christentum V 1, ’35, 1ff interprets the ‘light-bearer’ to mean the sun (this mng. of φ. in Nicetas Eugen. 1, 87; 3, 21; 5, 258 Hercher); cf. HWindisch ad loc. M-M.* -- Arndt, W., Gingrich, F. W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (1979). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature : a translation and adaption of the fourth revised and augmented edition of Walter Bauer’s Griechisch-deutsches Worterbuch zu den Schrift en des Neuen Testaments und der ubrigen urchristlichen Literatur (p. 872). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Thus, some take φωσφόρος in 2 Peter 1:19 as meaning Sun instead of morning star. 2 Peter 1:19 does not have the Greek word for morning star that is in Isaiah 14:12.

Answer 2

Most simple answer as both Jesus and Lucifer were referred too as the Morning 🌟Star. One Is the most radiant true light and one is the most radiant false light