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Lexicon :: Strong's G3789 - ophis

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ὄφις
Transliteration
ophis (Key)
Pronunciation
of'-is
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from ὀπτάνομαι (G3700) (through the idea of sharpness of vision)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:566,748

Strong’s Definitions

ὄφις óphis, of'-is; probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan:—serpent.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G3789 in the following manner: serpent (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G3789 in the following manner: serpent (14x).

  1. snake, serpent

  2. with the ancients, the serpent was an emblem of cunning and wisdom. The serpent who deceived Eve was regarded by the Jews as the devil.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὄφις óphis, of'-is; probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan:—serpent.
STRONGS G3789:
ὄφις, ὀφισεως, ὁ (perhaps named from its sight; cf. δράκων, at the beginning, and see Curtius, as under the word ὀφθαλμός); from Homer, Iliad 12, 208 down; the Sept. mostly for נָחָשׁ; a snake, serpent: Matthew 7:10; Mark 16:18; Luke 10:19; Luke 11:11; John 3:14; 1 Corinthians 10:9; Revelation 9:19; with the ancients the serpent was an emblem of cunning and wisdom, 2 Corinthians 11:3, cf. Genesis 3:1; hence, φρόνιμοι ὡς οἱ ὄφεις, Matthew 10:16 (here WH marginal reading ὁ ὄφις); hence, crafty hypocrites are called ὄφεις, Matthew 23:33. The serpent narrated to have deceived Eve (see Gen. as above) was regarded by the later Jews as the devil (Sap. ii., 23f, cf. 4 Macc. 18:8); hence, he is called ὁ ὄφις ὁ ἀρχαῖος, ὁ ὄφις: Revelation 12:9, 14; Revelation 20:2; see (Grimm on Sap. as above; From Lenormant, Beginnings of History etc., chapter ii., p. 109f, and) δράκων.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
3:1
Matthew
7:10; 10:16; 23:33
Mark
16:18
Luke
10:19; 11:11
John
3:14
1 Corinthians
10:9
2 Corinthians
11:3
Revelation
9:19; 12:9; 12:14; 20:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3789 matches the Greek ὄφις (ophis),
which occurs 35 times in 29 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 -

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘[fn]You shall not eat from [fn]any tree of the garden’?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - And the serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:14 - And Yahweh God said to the serpent,

“Because you have done this,

Cursed are you more than any of the cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you will go,

And dust you will eat

All the days of your life;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:17 -

“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,

A horned snake in the path,

That bites the horse’s heels,

So that his rider falls backward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:3 - Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:17 - “And you shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - “Go to Pharaoh in the morning [fn]as he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:6 - So Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people so that many people of Israel died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:7 - Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you; pray to Yahweh, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses prayed for the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - Then Yahweh said to Moses, “[fn]Make a fiery serpent and set it on a standard; and it will be that everyone who is bitten and looks at it, will live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:9 - And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it happened, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - “He led you through the great and fearsome wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He took away the high places and shattered the sacred pillars and cut down the [fn]Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel were burning incense to it; and it was called [fn]Nehushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:16 -

“He sucks the poison of cobras;

The viper’s tongue kills him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:4 -

They have venom like the venom of a serpent;

Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:3 -

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;

Poison of an asp is under their lips. [fn]Selah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:32 -

At the end—like a serpent it bites,

And like a viper it stings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:19 -

The way of an eagle in the sky,

The way of a serpent on a rock,

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

And the way of a man with a virgin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:8 -

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and a serpent may bite him who breaks through a wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:11 - If the serpent bites [fn]before being charmed, there is no advantage for the charmer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 -

“Do not be glad, O Philistia, all of you,

Because the rod that struck you is broken;

For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,

And its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.

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In that day Yahweh will [fn]punish [fn]Leviathan the fleeing serpent,

With His fierce and great and [fn]mighty sword,

Even [fn]Leviathan the twisted serpent;

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - “The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil nor act corruptly in all My holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:17

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“For behold, I am sending serpents against you,

Vipers, for which there is no charm,

And they will bite you,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 -

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;

For they move on [fn]like a military force

And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:19 -

As when a man flees from a lion

And a bear meets him;

[fn]Or he goes home, leans his hand against the wall,

And a snake bites him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 7:17

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They will lick the dust like a serpent,

Like crawling things of the earth.

They will come trembling out of their [fn]fortresses;

To Yahweh our God they will come in dread,

And they will be afraid before You.

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