Demon
שֵׁדStrong’s H7700shed
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shed is the Hebrew word usually translated “demons”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.”
Meaning
- Demon
How it's translated
- to the demons 1
- to demons 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שֵׁד shed · demon
demon
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “demon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEMON, noun
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and the celestial deities of the Pagans. The ancients believed that there were good and evil demons, which had influence over the minds of men, and that these beings carried on an intercourse between men and gods, conveying the addresses of men to the gods, and divine benefits to men. Hence demons became the objects of worship. It was supposed also that human spirits, after their departure from the body, became demons, and that the souls of virtuous men, if highly purified, were exalted from demons into gods. The demons of the New Testament were supposed to be spiritual beings which vexed and tormented men. And in general, the word, in modern use, signifies an evil spirit or genius, which influences the conduct or directs the fortunes of mankind.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.