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# שָׂטַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7853

**be adversary** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be adversary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7853/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂטַן: vb.denom. act as adversary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7853/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. (Gerber30) be or act as adversary;— Impf. 3 mpl. sf. יִשְׂטְנוּנִי ψ 38:21; 109:4; Inf. cstr. sf. לְשִׂטְנוֹ Zc 3:1; Pt. pl. cstr. שֹטְנֵי ψ 71:13, sf. שֹטְנַי 109:20, שׂוֹטְנַי v 29.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they (2); \[those (1); \[those who\] accuse (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 109:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.109.4/#tree)

תַּֽחַת־אַהֲבָתִ֥י יִשְׂטְנ֗וּנִי וַאֲנִ֥י תְפִלָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* in.place.of love my they accuse.me and I \[am\].prayer

*JPS 1917:* In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.

[Psalms 38:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.21/#tree)

וּמְשַׁלְּמֵ֣י רָ֭עָה תַּ֣חַת טוֹבָ֑ה יִ֝שְׂטְנ֗וּנִי תַּ֣חַת רָֽדְפִי־טֽוֹב׃

*Word for word:* and \[those.who\].repay (of).evil in.place.of good they accuse.me in.place.of pursuing my good

*JPS 1917:* They also that repay evil for good are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7853.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7853/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).