Lexicon :: Strong's G3789 - ophis

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’? ”

“No! You will certainly not die,” the serpent said to the woman.

So the LORD God asked the woman, “What have you done? ”

And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

“Dan will be a snake by the road,

a viper beside the path,

that bites the horse’s heels

so that its rider falls backward.

“Throw it on the ground,” he said. So Moses threw it on the ground, it became a snake, and he ran from it.

“And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with.”

“Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

Then the LORD sent poisonous[fn] snakes among the people, and they bit them so that many Israelites died.

“He led you through the great and terrible wilderness with its poisonous[fn] snakes and scorpions, a thirsty land where there was no water. He brought water out of the flint rock for you.

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for until then the Israelites were burning incense to it. It was called Nehushtan.[fn]

He will suck the poison of cobras;

a viper’s fangs[fn] will kill him.

They have venom like the venom of a snake,

like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,

They make their tongues

as sharp as a snake’s bite;

viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah

In the end it bites like a snake

and stings like a viper.

the way of an eagle in the sky,

the way of a snake on a rock,

the way of a ship at sea,

and the way of a man with a young woman.

The one who digs a pit may fall into it,

and the one who breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

If the snake bites before it is charmed,

then there is no advantage for the charmer.[fn]

Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,

because the rod of the one who struck you is broken.

For a viper will come from the root[fn] of a snake,

and from its egg comes a flying serpent.

On that day the LORD with his relentless, large, strong sword will bring judgment on Leviathan, the fleeing serpent ​— ​Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea.

“The wolf and the lamb will feed together,[fn]

and the lion will eat straw like cattle,

but the serpent’s food will be dust!

They will not do what is evil or destroy

on my entire holy mountain,”

says the LORD.

Indeed, I am about to send snakes among you,

poisonous vipers that cannot be charmed.

They will bite you.

This is the LORD’s declaration.

Egypt will hiss like a slithering snake,[fn]

for the enemy will come with an army;

with axes they will come against her

like those who cut trees.

It will be like a man who flees from a lion

only to have a bear confront him.

He goes home and rests his hand against the wall

only to have a snake bite him.

They will lick the dust like a snake;

they will come trembling out of their hiding places

like reptiles slithering on the ground.

They will tremble in the presence of the LORD our God;

they will stand in awe of you.