>>13955723Actually, it means "opponent," "adversary" or "accuser," which are all far less harsh than "enemy." Well technically satan is a verb that means "to oppose" but capital-S Satan derives from Ha-Satan which is a title that means the above things. His role is more prosecutor than enemy.
In the book of Job, for instance, he is explicitly tasked with testing Job by God himself.
... and according to research I just did, that's pretty much the only other time definite-article Ha-Satan (so not merely "an adversary" but rather "THE adversary") is briefly in Zechariah 3, where God yells at him for a bit.
