Lexical Summary shed: probably demon Original Word: שֵׁדTransliteration: shed Phonetic Spelling: (shade) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: probably demon Meaning: probably demon Strong's Concordance devil From shuwd; a doemon (as malignant) -- devil. see HEBREW shuwd Brown-Driver-Briggs H7700. shed [שֵׁד] noun [masculine] apparently demon (loan-word from Assyrian šêdu, a protecting spirit, especially of bull-colossus, DlPa 153 f.; WB 645 COTDeuteronomy 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 32:17 (compare Dr), Psalm 106:37 (human sacrifice). |
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