H6848 - צֶפַע (tsephaʻ)

H6848 צֶפַע (tsephaʻ) tseh'-fah or tsiphoniy tsif-o-nee'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a viper (as thrusting out the tongue, i.e. hissing)

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to extrude;

KJV Usage: adder, cockatrice.

TWOT Reference: 1954a,b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) poisonous serpent

1a) a viper snake or adder

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

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

G785 G2289

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

צִפְעֹנִי / צֶפַע tsepha‛ / tsiph‛ôný̂y BDB Definition: 1) poisonous serpent 1a) a viper snake or adder Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to extrude Same Word by TWOT Number: 1954a, 1954b Total KJV Occurrences: 5

Bible Occurrences (5)

23:32

11:8 14:29 59:5

8:17

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Isaiah 11:8

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach... into the viper’s nest.

Isaiah 14:29

Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

Isaiah 59:5

They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.

Jeremiah 8:17

For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you, declares the LORD.