צֶ֫פַע
tse.pah
“serpent”
Definition
a viper (as thrusting out the tongue, i.e. hissing)
from an unused root meaning to extrude;
- poisonous serpent 1a) a viper snake or adder
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
צֶ֫פַע appears 5 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The infant will play by the cobra’s den,and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
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.
They hatch the eggs of vipersand weave a spider’s web.Whoever eats their eggs will die;crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
“For behold, I will send snakes among you,vipers that cannot be charmed,and they will bite you,”declares the LORD.
In the end it bites like a snakeand stings like a viper.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.