STRONGS H7700:
Abbreviations
† [
שֵׁד]
noun [
masculine] apparently
demon (loan-word from Assyrian
šêdu, a protecting spirit, especially of bull-colossus, Dl
Pa 153 f.; WB 645 COT
Deuteronomy 32:17 Zim
KAT3. 460 f., 455, 649; compare Aramaic
שֵׁידָא,
demon, and (perhaps) Phoenician proper name
גדשד Nö
ZMG xiii (1888), 481 Lzb
249; originally √
שׁוד (= Arabic
rule) according to Thes Baud
Semitic Rei. i. 130 ff. Dl
WB and others; > Arabic
(III, IV
aid, Hom
ZMG xlvi (1892), 529, against this Zim
l.c.); —
יִזְבְּחוּ לַשֵּׁדִים לֹא אֱלֹהַּ Deuteronomy 32:17 (compare Dr),
Psalm 106:37 (human sacrifice).
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Deuteronomy
32:17; 32:17
Psalms
106:37