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( shud) that conveys the meaning of "acting with violence" or "laying waste," it was possibly a loanword from Akkadian, in which the word shedu referred to a spirit that could be either protective or malevolent. With the translation of Hebrew texts into Greek, under the influence of Zoroastrian dualism, "shedim" was translated into Greek as daimonia

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