Hebrew n-m / n:n--t · H7854
שָׂטָן
satansaw-tawn'
Satan
27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sâṭân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7854is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7854
an opponent; especially (with the article prefixed) Satan, the arch-enemy of good
The King James renders it: adversary, Satan, withstand.
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 "Satan". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 22:22Then God’s anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
Then God’s anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
Numbers 22:22לְשָׂטָ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the adversary14
- an adversary5
- into an adversary2
- to an adversary2
- and an accuser1
- and the accuser1
- O accuser1
- the accuser1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- הַשָּׂטָ֔ן5
- הַשָּׂטָ֖ן3
- הַשָּׂטָ֗ן3
- הַשָּׂטָ֤ן2
- הַשָּׂטָ֛ן2
- שָׂטָ֔ן2
- הַשָּׂטָן֙1
- וְהַשָּׂטָ֛ן1
- וְ֝שָׂטָ֗ן1
- לְשָׂטָ֣ן1
- לְשָׂטָ֔ן1
- לְשָׂטָ֖ן1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular16HTd/Ntmsa
- noun · masculine singular4HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular4HR/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ntmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNtmsa
Numbers
two uses
Then God’s anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.
- לְשָׂטָ֣ןlesatanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to an adversary
The angel of the LORD asked him, “Why have you beaten your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out to oppose you, because your way is perverse before me.
- לְשָׂטָ֔ןlesatanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to an adversary
1 Samuel
one use
But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the war. What better way for him to regain the favor of his master than with the heads of our men?
- לְשָׂטָ֖ןlesatanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into an adversary
2 Samuel
one use
And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
- לְשָׂטָ֑ןlesatanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into an adversary
1 Kings
four uses
But now the LORD my God has given me rest on every side, and there is no adversary or crisis.
- שָׂטָ֔ןsatannoun · masculine singulartagged: an adversary
Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom.
- שָׂטָן֙satannoun · masculine singulartagged: an adversary
And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
- שָׂטָ֔ןsatannoun · masculine singulartagged: an adversary
Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.
- שָׂטָ֤ןsatannoun · masculine singulartagged: an adversary
1 Chronicles
one use
Then Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.
- שָׂטָ֖ןsatannoun · masculine singulartagged: an adversary
Job
fourteen uses
One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
- הַשָּׂטָ֖ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- הַשָּׂטָ֖ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
- הַשָּׂטָ֤ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
- הַשָּׂטָ֔ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
Satan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
- הַשָּׂטָ֛ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
- הַשָּׂטָ֗ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
- הַשָּׂטָ֔ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
- הַשָּׂטָן֙hasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- הַשָּׂטָ֔ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
- הַשָּׂטָ֤ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
- הַשָּׂטָ֗ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
- הַשָּׂטָ֛ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
- הַשָּׂטָ֖ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
- הַשָּׂטָ֔ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the adversary
Psalms
one use
Set over him a wicked man; let an accuser stand at his right hand.
- וְ֝שָׂטָ֗ןvesatanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an accuser
Zechariah
three uses
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.
- וְהַשָּׂטָ֛ןvehasatanconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the accuser
And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”
- הַשָּׂטָ֗ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the accuser
- הַשָּׂטָ֔ןhasatanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: O accuser
The letters
Gematria 359· 1,009 mispar gadol
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.