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שֵׁד

«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.

Used: 2 times · Key: 7700 · BDB: שֵׁד

Glosses

demons (2)

Meaning (OSHB)

demon tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

demon tree →

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).

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Psalms 106:37

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,

Deuteronomy 32:17

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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