Footnote

Heb., has·Sa·tanʹ, “the Resister.” Used throughout chapters 1 and 2. This is the first occurrence of has·Sa·tanʹ in M, although sa·tanʹ, “resister,” without the definite article ha, occurs nine times before this, beginning in Nu 22:22. Ge­se­ni­us’ Hebrew Grammar (GK), §126 d and e, states: “The article is, generally speaking, employed to determine a substantive wherever it is required by Greek and English; thus: . . . (d) When terms applying to whole classes are restricted (simply by usage) to particular individuals . . . or things, e.g. שָׂטָן adversary, הַשָּׂטָן the adversary, Satan . . . .”