Viper
אֶפְעֶהStrong’s H0660epheh (eph-eh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Epheh is the Hebrew word usually translated “viper” and “snake”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.”
Meaning
- A viper, snake
How it's translated
- a viper 1
- viper 1
- a snake 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 30:6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
Hebrew dictionary
אֶפְעֶה epheh · viper
a viper, snake
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “viper” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VI'PER, noun
[Latin vipera.]
- A serpent, a species of coluber, whose bite is remarkably venomous.“A viper came out of the heat, and fastened on his hand” Acts 28:3
- A person or thing mischievous or malignant.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.