Lexical Summary satan: to be or act as adversary Original Word: שָׂטַןTransliteration: satan Phonetic Spelling: (saw-tan') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be or act as adversary Meaning: to be or act as adversary Strong's Concordance be an adversary, resist A primitive root; to attack, (figuratively) accuse -- (be an) adversary, resist. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7853. satan [שָׂטַן] verb denominative (Gerber30) be or act as adversary; — Qal Imperfect3masculine plural suffix יִשְׂטְנוּנִי Psalm 38:21; 109:4; Infinitive construct suffix לְשִׁטְנוֺ Zechariah 3:1; Participle plural construct שׂטְנֵי Psalm 71:13, suffix שׂטְנַי 109:21, שׂטְנַי 109:20, שׂוֺטְנַי 109:29. |