שֵׁד
shêd · H7700 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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spirit, demon
Supernatural being, associated with pagan worship
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:17 “They sacrificed to demons, who were not God, To gods whom they have not known, New gods who came lately, Whom your fathers did not know.
Psalm 106:37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- חָדָשׁnew 1
- אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- δαιμόνιον daimónion · G1140 · demon, evil spirit, god
- Greek δαιμόνιον renders Hebrew שֵׁד as the standard New Testament term for demonic beings, maintaining the core semantic concept of evil spiritual entities across both testaments.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Deities001001001
- Deuteronomy 32:17 says Israel "sacrificed to demons, who were not God," and Psalm 106:37 repeats that they "sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons," both directly attesting this word's use for a false god or demon.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7700. shed [שֵׁד] noun [masculine] apparently demon (loan-word from Assyrian šêdu, a…
[שֵׁד] noun [masculine] apparently demon (loan-word from Assyrian šêdu, a protecting spirit, especially of bull-colossus, DlPa 153 f.; WB 645 COTDeu 32:17 ZimKAT3. 460 f., 455, 649; compare Aramaic שֵׁידָא, demon, and (perhaps) Phoenician proper name גדשד NöZMG xiii (1888), 481 Lzb249; originally √שׁוד ( = Arabic rule) according to Thes BaudSemitic Rei. i. 130 ff. DlWB and others; > Arabic (III, IV aid, HomZMG xlvi (1892), 529, against this Ziml. c); — אֱלֹהַּ לֹא לַשֵּׁדִים יִזְבְּחוּ Deu 32:17 (compare Dr), Psa 106:37 (human sacrifice).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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