Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

Maybe this is where we learn from the written Torah that HA'Satan is 
an angel whose job is to attempt to steer mankind away from Hashem - 
and not an independent entity - just an angel, with a job like each 
other angel, all of them subservient to G-d.

Shoshanna


> Looking at the context, it is clearly a verb, infinitive. This is not
> a common verb (nor noun, for that matter) so that it could be found
> only once in this particular form in Tanakh is not surprising.
> However, it follows well attested to patterns.