GOAT-DEMONS — the plural of sa'ir, 'he-goat' (the same word Leviticus 16 uses for the two ordinary goats of the Day of Atonement), applied here to objects of illegitimate sacrifice: 'they shall no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the se'irim, after whom they prostitute themselves' (17:7). KJV imports the Greco-Roman 'satyrs,' a mythological borrowing the Hebrew text itself does not make; this translation reads the plainer 'the goat-demons.' The verse is cited in advance at this project's own Azazel entry (Leviticus 16:8, already on these pages), as grammatical evidence that Azazel names a being rather than merely a place or a folk etymology — real goat-shaped objects of popular worship, suppressed here in the same breath that centralizes all sacrifice at one altar. → first discussed at Lev 17:7