I'm looking for info about the Hebrew word 'Satan'
I'll be specific so that you know what I'm asking for ( bold print added by me )
Numbers 22:32 NWT, "Then Jehovah's angel said to him: "Why have you beaten your she-ass these three times ? Look ! I - I have come to offer resistance, because your way has been headlong against my will."
According to the BOrg 'Insight on the Scriptures' Vol 2 pg 866 under Satan it says, "[Resistor]. In many places in the Hebrew Scriptures, the word sa-tan' appears without the definite article. Used in this way, it applies in its first appearance to the angel that stood in the road to resist Balaam as he set out with the objective of cursing the Israelites. ( Nu 22:22, 32 ) In other instances it refers to individuals as resistors of other men. ( 1Sa 29:4; 2Sa 19:21, 22; 1Ki 5:4; 11:14, 23, 25 ) But it is used with the definite article ha to refer to Satan the Devil, the chief Adversary of God. ( Job 1:6, ftn; 2:1-7; Zec 3:1, 2 )
So the BOrg's Hebrew researchers have decided that Satan without a definite article should be translated 'resistor' and refer to the role that a person is filling. And Satan with a definite article should be translated as a proper noun 'Satan' and refer to one specific person
My question revolves around the Hebrew word 'Satan' with a definite article. Does the accompaniment of the definite article specify only a proper noun or could it specify a more narrowly defined noun, such as 'formost resistor' or 'arch enemy' ?
If it could be translated 'arch enemy', then Satan may not be one being but rather refer various beings
According to this line of thought, the archenemy or chief adversary of YHWH could be a different person than the arch enemy of someone else
To make sure that I'm being clear, let me use an example. When the comic book character Superman is talking to 'Satan', he would be talking to Lex Luther. And when the comic book character Lex Luther is talking to 'Satan', he would be talking to Superman
Is there anything within the study of the known Aramaic and Greek texts that would answer these questions ?
David