- the demon or place in the wilderness to which the scapegoat is released in an atonement ritual. Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26.
- the scapegoat itself.
- a desert demon to whom the scapegoat bearing the sins of Israel was sent out once a year on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:1–28)
- (in later Jewish and Gnostic writings and in Muslim tradition) a prince of demons
