Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions who entices humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor
Illustration of the Devil on Codex Gigas, early thirteenth century
Balaam and the Angel (1836) by Gustav Jäger. The angel in this incident is referred to as a "satan".
The Examination of Job (c. 1821) by William Blake
The sound of a shofar (pictured) is believed to symbolically confuse Satan.
The devil is a mythical personification of evil as conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell
Satan
…ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word "devil" is derived. Where satan is used to refer to human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left…
Statue of the devil in "the Devil Museum" in Kaunas, Lithuania
The Devil on horseback. Nuremberg Chronicle (1493).
God and Lucifer – The Queen Mary Psalter (1310–1320), f.1v – BL Royal MS 2 B VII
Satan (the dragon; on the left) gives to the beast of the sea (on the right) power represented by a sceptre in a detail of panel III.40 of the medieval French Apocalypse Tapestry, produced between 1377 and 1382.