שְׁפִיפֹן
shᵉphîyphôn · H8207 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- ViperSnakes and lizards14 verses
Meanings
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viper
Exact meaning unknown: type of viper; unclean animal; associated with lurking danger
ExamplesGenesis 49:17 “Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned viper in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, So that its rider falls backward.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָחָשׁsnake 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 4 words
- שָׂרָף sârâph · H8314 · carpet viper, seraph
- Both words denote types of serpents or snakes, within the same range of snake terminology.
- צֶפַע tsephaʻ · H6848 · cobra
- Both are glossed as types of venomous snake, such as adder or cockatrice, two distinct Hebrew words for the same or closely overlapping category of reptile.
- אֶפְעֶה ʼephʻeh · H660 · viper
- Both words are terms for venomous snakes with highly similar sense, referring to poisonous serpents.
- עַכְשׁוּב ʻakshûwb · H5919 · spider, viper
- Both refer to venomous serpents; rare synonyms (each occurring once).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Small Animals001001002003
- This noun denotes a venomous snake, as in Genesis 49:17's description of Dan as a horned viper in the path that bites the horse's heels.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8207. shephiphon שְׁפִיפֹן noun [masculine] horned snake, ᵐ5 κεράστης (Arabic , Frey); —…
שְׁפִיפֹן noun [masculine] horned snake, ᵐ5 κεράστης (Arabic , Frey); — absolute ׳שׁ Gen 49:17 (|| נָחָשׁ); = cerastes cornutus or Hasselquistii, compare TrNBB 273 PostHast. DB iv. 457 f. McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. iv. 4393 Dron the passage — שְׁפוּפָן שְׁפוּפָם, see S. V.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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