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Lexicon :: Strong's H5175 - nāḥāš

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נָחָשׁ
Transliteration
nāḥāš
Pronunciation
naw-khawsh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1347a

Strong’s Definitions

נָחָשׁ nâchâsh, naw-khawsh'; from H5172; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's H5175 in the following manner: serpent (31x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's H5175 in the following manner: serpent (31x).
  1. serpent, snake

    1. serpent

    2. image (of serpent)

    3. fleeing serpent (mythological)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָחָשׁ nâchâsh, naw-khawsh'; from H5172; a snake (from its hiss):—serpent.
STRONGS H5175: Abbreviations
† I. נָחָשׁ noun masculineGenesis 3:1 serpent (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb063802 serpent, viper (Lane406 anything hunted) is compare by LagM, i, 230; BN 50, 188 BaEs 48, but improbable; Arabic bdb063803 see below [נָחַשׁ below; on formation compare LagBN 50); — absolute נ׳ Amos 5:19 +; construct נְחַשׁ Numbers 21:9 + 2 times; plural נְחָשִׁים Numbers 21:6; Jeremiah 8:17; —
1. serpent:
a. as biting, Amos 5:19; Ecclesiastes 10:8, in spite of charm (לַחַשׁ) Ecclesiastes 10:11 [compare Ecclus 12:13], Jeremiah 8:17 (+ צִפְעֹנִים; figurative of enemies); so הַנְּחָשִׁים הַשְׁרָפִים Numbers 21:6 (deadly; J E; compare JacobArab. Dicht. iv. 10 ff.), and singular Numbers 21:9, also (collective) Numbers 21:7 compare שָׂרָף נ׳ Deuteronomy 8:15 (+ עַקְרָב); נ׳ figurative of oppressor, מִשֹּׁרֶשׁ נָחָשׁ יֵצֵא צֶפַע וּפִרְיוֺ שָׂרָף מְעוֺפֵף Isaiah 14:29; figurative of Dan Genesis 49:17 (poem in J; || שְׁפִיפֹן); הֲמַת נ׳ Psalm 58:5 (simile of perniciousness of ungodly), compare נ׳ Psalm 140:4; simile of effect of wine Proverbs 22:32 (|| צִפִעֹנִי).
b. rod becomes נ׳ Exodus 4:3 (J), compare Exodus 7:15 (E); עֲלֵי צוּר דֶּרֶךְ נ׳ Proverbs 30:19.
c. נ׳ (apparently) as hissing Jeremiah 46:22 (in simile, compare Gie); as eating dust Isaiah 65:25 compare Micah 7:17 (in simile; see also Genesis 3:14).
d. as crafty tempter Genesis 3:1, 2, 4, 13, 14.
2. (הַ)נְּחשֶׁת נ׳, bronze image of serpent Numbers 21:9 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 18:4 (compare נְחֻשְׁתָּן).
3. mythological בָּרִחַ נ׳ Job 26:13 fleeing serpent, of eclipse-dragon (compareלִנְיָתָן Job 3:6); also בּרִחַ ֗֗֗ לִוְיָתָן נ׳ עֲקַלָּתוֺן לִוְיָתָן נ׳ Isaiah 27:1 (symbolic of world-powers); נ׳ of sea-monster Amos 9:3. — נ׳ with verb נָשַׁךְ bite Numbers 21:6 + 8 times On supernatural character of serpents in Arabic belief see NöZeitschr. Für Völkerpsychol. i.(1860), 412-416 RSKinship 197, Semitic i. 421 f., 2d ed, 442 WeSkizzen iii.147, Arab. Heid. 2, 152 f. JacobArab. Dicht. iv. 5
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

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

Exodus

4:3; 7:15

Numbers

21:6; 21:6; 21:6; 21:7; 21:9; 21:9; 21:9

Deuteronomy

8:15

2 Kings

18:4

Job

3:6; 26:13

Psalms

58:5; 140:4

Proverbs

30:19

Ecclesiastes

10:8; 10:11

Isaiah

14:29; 27:1; 65:25

Jeremiah

8:17; 8:17; 46:22

Amos

5:19; 5:19; 9:3

Micah

7:17

H5175

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5175 matches the Hebrew נָחָשׁ (nāḥāš),
which occurs 31 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 -

Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And [fn]the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from [fn]any tree of the garden’?”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - But the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die!
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree].”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - The LORD God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all the cattle,

And more than any animal of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And dust you shall eat

All the days of your life.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:17 -

“Dan shall be a [venomous] serpent in the way,

A fanged snake in the path,

That bites the horse’s heels,

So that his rider falls backward.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a [living] serpent [like the royal symbol on the crown of Pharaoh]; and Moses ran from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - “Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and wait for him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:6 - Then the LORD sent fiery (burning) serpents among the people; and they bit the people, and many Israelites died.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - So the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD, so that He will remove the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it on the pole, and it happened that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - “He led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; it was He who brought water for you out of the flinty rock.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the high places [of pagan worship], broke down the images (memorial stones) and cut down the Asherim. He also crushed to pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the Israelites had burned incense to it; and it was called [fn]Nehushtan [a bronze sculpture].
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:13 -

“By His breath the heavens are cleared;

His hand has pierced the [swiftly] fleeing serpent.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:4 -

Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;

They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:3 -

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;

Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 -

At the last it bites like a serpent

And stings like a viper.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 -

The way of an eagle in the air,

The way of a serpent on a rock,

The way of a ship in the middle of the sea,

And the way of a man with a maid.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:8 -

He who digs a pit [for others] may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a [stone] wall.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:11 - If the serpent bites before being charmed, then there is no profit for the charmer.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 -

“Do not rejoice, O Philistia, any of you,

Because the rod [of Judah] that struck you is broken;

For out of the serpent’s root will come a viper [King Hezekiah of Judah],

And its offspring will be a flying serpent.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 -

In that day the Lord will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent

With His fierce and great and mighty sword [rescuing Israel from her enemy],

Even Leviathan the twisted serpent;

And He will kill the dragon who lives in the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - “The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox [there will no longer be predator and prey]; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain (Zion),” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:17 -

“For behold, I am sending serpents among you,

Vipers which cannot be charmed,

And they will bite you,” says the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 -

“The sound [of Egypt fleeing from the enemy] is like [the rustling of] an escaping serpent,

For her foes advance with a mighty army

And come against her like woodcutters with axes.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 -

It is as if a man runs from a lion [escaping one danger]

And a bear meets him [so he dies anyway],

Or goes home, and leans with his hand against the wall

And a snake bites him.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:3 -

“Though they hide on the summit of [Mount] Carmel,

I will track them down and take them from there;

And though they hide from My sight on the floor of the sea,

From there I shall command the serpent and it will bite them.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:17 -

They shall lick the dust like a serpent;

Like crawling things of the earth

They shall come trembling out of their fortresses and hiding places.

They shall turn and come with fear and dread to the LORD our God

And they shall be afraid and stand in awe before You [O LORD].

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