Deuteronomy 32:17

Devils ; shedim , a word which occurs only here and Psalms 106:37 . It stands connected with the verb שׁוּד , to rule, and means primarily "lords." The LXX . render by δαιμόνια , demons. In Assyrian it is said to be a name for demigods. Not to God ; rather, to a not God , a composite term in apposition to shedim ; the meaning is rightly given in the margin of the Authorized Version, "which were not God." To new gods that came newly up. The word rendered by "newly" ( קָרוֹב ) properly means "near;" it is an adjective both of place and of time; here it is the latter, equal to of a near time, recently—gods recently invented or discovered.