Greek noun (feminine) · G2191
ἔχιδνα
echidnaekh'-id-nah
snake
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: échidna
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2191is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2191
an adder or other poisonous snake (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: viper.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
echidna is rendered "snake". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 3:7ἐχιδνῶν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- of vipers4
- a viper1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐχιδνῶν4
- ἔχιδνα1
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine plural4N-GPF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1N-NSF
Matthew
three uses
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- ἐχιδνῶνechidnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of vipers
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- ἐχιδνῶνechidnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of vipers
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
- ἐχιδνῶνechidnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of vipers
Luke
one use
Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
- ἐχιδνῶνechidnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine pluraltagged: of vipers
Acts
one use
Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand.
- ἔχιδναechidnanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a viper
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.