Hebrew verb · H7853
שָׂטַן
satansaw-tan'
to oppose
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâṭan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7853is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7853
to attack, (figuratively) accuse
The King James renders it: (be an) adversary, resist.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
satan is rendered "to oppose". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 38:20Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
Psalms 38:20יִ֝שְׂטְנ֗וּנִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's six uses are in Psalms.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- accusers my2
- they accuse me2
- accusers of1
- to accuse him1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִ֝שְׂטְנ֗וּנִי1
- יִשְׂטְנ֗וּנִי1
- לְשִׂטְנֽוֹ׃1
- שׂוֹטְנַ֣י1
- שֹׂטְנֵ֪י1
- שֹׂ֭טְנַי1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVqi3mp/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HVqrmpc/Sp1bs
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Vqcc/Sp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVqrmpc
Psalms
five uses
Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good.
- יִ֝שְׂטְנ֗וּנִיyistenuniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they accuse me
May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.
- שֹׂטְנֵ֪יsoteneiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: accusers of
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
- יִשְׂטְנ֗וּנִיyistenuniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they accuse me
May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
- שֹׂ֭טְנַיsotenaiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: accusers my
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.
- שׂוֹטְנַ֣יsotnaiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: accusers my
Zechariah
one use
Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
- לְשִׂטְנֽוֹ׃lesitnopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to accuse him
The letters
Gematria 359· 1,009 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.