Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5175
נָחָשׁ
nachashnaw-khawsh'
serpent
31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâchâsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5175is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 27spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5175
a snake (from its hiss)
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
nachash is rendered "serpent". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.
The first use
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Genesis 3:1וְהַנָּחָשׁ֙
The first use, in the order of the Old 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
- the snake9
- a snake8
- into a snake2
- like the snake2
- snake2
- snake of2
- a snake of1
- and a snake1
- and the snake1
- like a snake1
- snakes1
- the snakes1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נָחָה | nachah | to lead | Uses39 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
27 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
- הַנָּחָ֖שׁ3
- הַנָּחָ֑שׁ2
- נָחָ֣שׁ2
- הַנָּחָ֥שׁ1
- הַנָּחָשׁ֮1
- הַנָּחָשׁ֙1
- הַנָּחָֽשׁ׃1
- הַנְּחָשִׁ֣ים1
- וְהַנָּחָשׁ֙1
- וְנָחָ֖שׁ1
- כְּנָחָ֣שׁ1
- כַּנָּחָ֣שׁ1
and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular10HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular3HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
six uses
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- וְהַנָּחָשׁ֙vehanachashconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the snake
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
- הַנָּחָ֑שׁhanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
- הַנָּחָ֖שׁhanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
- הַנָּחָ֥שׁhanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
- הַנָּחָשׁ֮hanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
- נָחָ֣שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
Exodus
two uses
“Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
- לְנָחָ֑שׁlenachashpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a snake
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake.
- לְנָחָ֖שׁlenachashpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a snake
Numbers
five uses
So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- הַנְּחָשִׁ֣יםhanechashimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the snakes
Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
- הַנָּחָ֑שׁhanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.
- נְחַ֣שׁnechashnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a snake of
- הַנָּחָשׁ֙hanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
- נְחַ֥שׁnechashnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: snake of
Deuteronomy
one use
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
- נָחָ֤שׁ׀nachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: snake
2 Kings
one use
He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
- נְחַ֨שׁnechashnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: snake of
Job
one use
By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
- נָחָ֥שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: snake
Psalms
two uses
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- נָחָ֑שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- נָ֫חָ֥שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
Proverbs
two uses
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
- כְּנָחָ֣שׁkenachashpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a snake
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 maiden.
- נָחָ֗שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
Ecclesiastes
two uses
He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- נָחָֽשׁ׃nachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
If the snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
- הַנָּחָ֖שׁhanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
Isaiah
four uses
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
- נָחָשׁ֙nachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
- נָחָ֣שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
- נָחָ֖שׁnachashnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
- וְנָחָ֖שׁvenachashconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a snake
Jeremiah
two uses
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- נְחָשִׁים֙nechashimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: snakes
Egypt will hiss like a fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.
- כַּנָּחָ֣שׁkanachashpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the snake
Amos
two uses
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
- הַנָּחָֽשׁ׃hanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
- הַנָּחָ֖שׁhanachashthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the snake
Micah
one use
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
- כַּנָּחָ֔שׁkanachashpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the snake
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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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.