Azazel, its meaning (Herzog; Schaff; Jackson; Schaff, A religious encyclopædia, 3rd ed., 1891, vol. 1)

Text: "And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering. ... And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat [Azazel]." Leviticus 16:5,7,8

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   AZAZEL. This word is a transliteration of the Hebrew term translated in the authorized version (Lev. xvi. 8 sq.) "scapegoat;" but the correct interpretation is much debated. Some consider azazel as the name of a region, "the desert," or of a person, the opposite to Jahveh, either a spirit, a demon, or Satan himself. The last interpretation has met with great favor; but against it may be urged that nowhere else in the Pentateuch is Satan mentioned, and the fact renders it all the more unlikely that he should be mentioned here by a name he never has in the Bible. [...]

Herzog, Johann Jakob; Schaff, Philip; Jackson, Samuel Macauley; Schaff, David Schley, A religious encyclopædia: or dictionary of Biblical, historical, doctrinal, and practical theology. Based on the Real-Encyklopädie of Herzog, Plitt and Hauck; together with an encyclopædia of living divines and Christian workers of all denominations in Europe and America, 3rd ed., rev. & enlrg., New York, Toronto, London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1891, vol. 1, p. 183.

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