However, the Latin word never came to be used almost exclusively, as in English, in this way, and was applied to others also, including Jesus. As a result, Lucifer has become a by-word for Satan or the Devil in the church and in popular literature", as in Dante Alighieri's Inferno, Joost van den Vondel's Lucifer and John Milton's Paradise Lost. Later Christian tradition came to use the Latin word for "morning star", lucifer, as a proper name ("Lucifer") for the Devil as he was before his fall. The Septuagint renders הֵילֵל in Greek as ἑωσφόρος ( heōsphoros), a name, literally "bringer of dawn", for the morning star.
The word Lucifer is taken from the Latin Vulgate, which translates הֵילֵל as lucifer, even though the Biblical Hebrew word הֵילֵל, which occurs only once in the Hebrew Bible, has been transliterated as hêlêl, or heylel.