שֵׁדshêd

apparently demon (Deuteronomy 32:17; Psalms 106:37)

Pronunciation: shade · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7700

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 32:17 They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.
  • Psalms 106:37 They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).