שֵׁד
shed · demons
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7700 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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shed (שֵׁד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “demons”.
Evil spirits to which some peoples offered sacrifices.
How to say it
shed
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Spirits other peoples sacrificed to, which are not God.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons, who are not Eloah, to gods they had not known, new ones who came from nearby, whom your fathers did not dread.
- Psalms 106:37
And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.