Azazel

Azazel, a name occurring in Leviticus xvi., in the account of the rites of the Day of Atonement, explained by some as the 'scapegoat' which was led out into the wilderness laden with the sins of the people; by others, with much greater likelihood, as a designation of the being to whom the goat was sent—Satan, according to Hengstenberg, or a demon of the pre-Mosaic religion, according to Ewald.