Word

Σατανᾶς

Satanâs · G4567 · Greek · 36 occurrences

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Person

Meanings

  1. Devil, Satan

    (A borrowing from Hebrew and Aramaic: a title for the Devil, literally: adversary) The principal supernatural evil being

    Examples

    Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’”

    Matthew 12:26 “And if Satan is casting out Satan, he has become divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

    Matthew 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s purposes, but men’s.”

  2. Satan

    (A borrowing from Hebrew and Aramaic meaning literally: adversary) The usual proper name of the Devil; see also sense 1

    Examples

    Matthew 4:10 Then Jesus said to him, “Go away, Satan! For it is written: ‘YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND SERVE HIM ONLY.’”

    Matthew 12:26 “And if Satan is casting out Satan, he has become divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?

    Matthew 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God’s purposes, but men’s.”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it doesIt is the subject

15 occurrences in 14 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 2 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 5 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Devil, Satan12.34
The proper name identifies the personal supernatural adversary of God and humanity. Jesus rebukes Peter: “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me” (Matthew 16:23).
Satan93.330
The same proper name is also treated as a name in its own right. Paul warns the Corinthians, “so that no advantage would be taken of us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes” (2 Corinthians 2:11).
Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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