Serpent
נָחָשׁStrong’s H5175nachash (na-chash)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nachash is the Hebrew word usually translated “snake”, “snake of” and “like snake”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
Meaning
- Serpent, snakeserpent · image (of serpent) · fleeing serpent (mythological)
How it's translated
- the snake 9
- a snake 9
- snake of 2
- snake 2
- like snake 2
- and the snake 1
- into a snake 1
- the snakes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
- Numbers 3
- Isaiah 3
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
- Genesis 3:4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
- Genesis 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
- Genesis 3:14And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
- Genesis 49:17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- Exodus 4:3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Hebrew dictionary
נָחָשׁ nachash · serpent
1) serpent, snake 1a) serpent 1b) image (of serpent) 1c) fleeing serpent (mythological)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “serpent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SER'PENT, noun
[Latin serpens, creeping; serpo, to creep.]
- An animal of the order of Serpentes, [creepers, crawlers, ] Of the class of Amphibia.
- In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing, according to the British catalogue, sixty-four stars.
- An instrument of music, serving as a base to the cornet or small shawm, to sustain a chorus of singers in a large edifice.
- Figuratively, a subtil or malicious person.
All definitions
- In mythology, a symbol of the sun.
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.