H5175 - נָחָשׁ (nâchâsh)

H5175 נָחָשׁ (nâchâsh) naw-khawsh'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

serpent

Strong's Definition

a snake (from its hiss)

Derivation: from H5172 (נָחַשׁ);

KJV Usage: serpent.

TWOT Reference: 1347a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) serpent, snake

1a) serpent

1b) image (of serpent)

1c) fleeing serpent (mythological)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1404 G3789

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) serpent, snake 1a) serpent 1b) image (of serpent) 1c) fleeing serpent (mythological)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

נָחָשׁ nâchâsh BDB Definition: 1) serpent, snake 1a) serpent 1b) image (of serpent) 1c) fleeing serpent (mythological) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5172 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1347a Total KJV Occurrences: 31

Bible Occurrences (28)

3:1 3:2 3:4 3:13 3:14 49:17

4:3 7:15

21:6 21:7 21:9

8:15

18:4

26:13

58:4 140:3

23:32 30:19

10:8 10:11

14:29 27:1 65:25

8:17 46:22

5:19 9:3

7:17

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, Did God really... say, You must not eat from any tree in the garden?

Genesis 3:2

The woman answered... the serpent, We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:4

You will not surely die..., the serpent told... the woman.

Genesis 3:13

Then the LORD God said to the woman, What [is] this you have done? The serpent deceived me, [she] replied, and I ate.

Genesis 3:14

So the LORD God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly {will} you go, and dust you {will} eat, all the days of your life.

Genesis 49:17

He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Exodus 4:3

Throw it on the ground, said [the LORD]. So [Moses] threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and [he] ran from it.

Exodus 7:15

Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.