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Lexicon :: Strong's G785 - aspis

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ἀσπίς
Transliteration
aspis (Key)
Pronunciation
as-pece'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀσπίς aspís, as-pece'; of uncertain derivation; a buckler (or round shield); used of a serpent (as coiling itself), probably the "asp":—asp.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G785 in the following manner: asp (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G785 in the following manner: asp (1x).

  1. an asp, a small and most venomous serpent, the bite of which is fatal unless the bitten part be immediately cut away

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀσπίς aspís, as-pece'; of uncertain derivation; a buckler (or round shield); used of a serpent (as coiling itself), probably the "asp":—asp.
STRONGS G785:
ἀσπίς, -ίδος, ἡ, an asp, a small and most venomous serpent, the bite of which is fatal unless the part bitten be immediately cut away: Romans 3:13. (Deuteronomy 32:33; Isaiah 30:6 [etc. Herodotus, Aristotle, others.] Aelian nat. an. 2, 24; 6, 38; Plutarch, mor., p. 380 f. i. e. de Isid. et Osir. § 74; Oppian. cyn. 3, 433.) [Cf. BB. DD. under the word Asp; Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, p. 270ff.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
32:33
Isaiah
30:6
Romans
3:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G785 matches the Greek ἀσπίς (aspis),
which occurs 20 times in 17 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:33 - Their wine is the poison of serpents,
And the cruel venom of cobras.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6 - And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:45

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:45 - Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 5:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 5:18 - The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh had forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty valiant men, men able to bear shield and sword, to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war, who went to war.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels[fn] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:26 - Running stubbornly against Him
With his strong, embossed shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:14 - Yet his food in his stomach turns sour;
It becomes cobra venom within him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:15 - His rows of scales are his pride,
Shut up tightly as with a seal;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:3 - They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:4 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent;
They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13 - You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,
The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:3 - They sharpen their tongues like a serpent;
The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:8 - The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole,
And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:29 - “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,
Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper,
And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - The burden against the beasts of the South.

Through a land of trouble and anguish,
From which came the lioness and lion,
The viper and fiery flying serpent,
They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on the humps of camels,
To a people who shall not profit;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:5 - They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:3 - “Order the buckler and shield,
And draw near to battle!
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