Greek noun (masculine) · G3789
ὄφις
ophisof'-is
snake
13 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: óphis
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3789is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3789
a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan
The King James renders it: serpent.
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
ophis is rendered "snake". It stands 13 times in the Greek text, across six books.
- Five of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 7:10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Matthew 7:10ὄφιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's thirteen uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- serpent6
- serpents4
- a serpent2
- as serpents1
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 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- ὄφις4
- ὄφιν3
- ὄφεις2
- ὄφεων2
- ὄφεσιν1
- ὄφεως1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular4N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural2N-GPM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural1N-NPM
- noun · vocative (address) · masculine plural1N-VPM
Matthew
three uses
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
- ὄφινophinnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a serpent
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
- ὄφειςopheisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: serpents
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
- ὄφειςopheisnoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: Serpents
Luke
two uses
Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
- ὄφεωνopheonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: serpents
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
- ὄφινophinnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a serpent
John
one use
Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
- ὄφινophinnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: serpent
1 Corinthians
one use
We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
- ὄφεωνopheonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: serpents
2 Corinthians
one use
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- ὄφιςophisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: serpent
Revelation
five uses
For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to inflict harm.
- ὄφεσινophesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: as serpents
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
- ὄφιςophisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: serpent
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
- ὄφεωςopheosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: serpent
Then from the mouth of the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.
- ὄφιςophisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: serpent
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
- ὄφιςophisnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: serpent
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.