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title: שֵׁד — demon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁד (7700), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: demon. BDB 1906: demon. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁד

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«שֵׁד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **demon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7700 · **BDB:** שֵׁד

### Glosses

demons (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

demon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7700/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

demon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7700/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] appar. demon (loan-word from Assyrian šêdu, a protecting spirit, especially of bull-colossus, DlPa 153 f.; WB 646; COT Dt 32:17 ZimKAT3. 460 f., 455, 649; cf. Aramaic שֵׁידָא, ܫܺܐܕܳܐ demon, and (perhaps) Ph. n.pr. גדשד NöZMG xlii (1888), 481 Lzb249; orig. √ שׁוד (= Arabic سَادَ rule) according to Thes Baud Sem. Rel. i. 130 ff. DlWB al.; \> Arabic سعد (iii, iv aid), HomZMG xlvi (1892), 529, against this Ziml. c.);—יִזְבְּחוּ לַשֵּׁדִים לֹא אֱלֹהַּ Dt 32:17 (cf. Dr), ψ 106:37 (human sacrifice).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7700/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 106:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.37/)

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וַיִּזְבְּח֣וּ אֶת־בְּ֭נֵיהֶם וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיהֶ֗ם לַשֵּֽׁדִים׃

*Word for word:* and they.sacrificed (et) sons their and (et) daughters their to (the) demons

*JPS 1917:* Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,

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[Deuteronomy 32:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.17/)

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יִזְבְּח֗וּ לַשֵּׁדִים֙ לֹ֣א אֱלֹ֔הַ אֱלֹהִ֖ים לֹ֣א יְדָע֑וּם חֲדָשִׁים֙ מִקָּרֹ֣ב בָּ֔אוּ לֹ֥א שְׂעָר֖וּם אֲבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* they.sacrificed to (the) demons \[which\].not \[are\].God gods \[which\].not they had.known.them new.\[gods\] \[which\].from near they.had.come \[which\].not they had.known.about.them ancestors your

*JPS 1917:* They sacrificed unto demons, no-gods, gods that they knew not, new gods that came up of late, which your fathers dreaded not.

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