STRONGS NUMBER H7700


Word Summary
shed: probably demon
Original Word: שֵׁד
Transliteration: 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 יִזְבְּחוּ32:17 (compare Dr), Psalm 106:37 (human sacrifice).