Serpent
צֶ֫פַעStrong’s H6848tsepah (tse-pah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsepah is the Hebrew word usually translated “viper”, “like a viper” and “vipers”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”
Meaning
- Poisonous serpenta viper snake or adder
How it's translated
- a viper 3
- and like a viper 1
- vipers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Proverbs 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 11:8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
- Isaiah 14:29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
צֶ֫פַע tsepah · serpent
1) poisonous serpent 1a) a viper snake or adder
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.