Hebrew noun (masculine) · H660
אֶפְעֶה
ephehef-eh'
viper
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼephʻeh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H660is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H660
an asp or other venomous serpent
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
epheh is rendered "viper". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 20:16He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
Job 20:16אֶפְעֶֽה׃
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
- a snake1
- a viper1
- 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 3, 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
- אֶפְעֶֽה׃2
- אֶפְעֶה֙1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
Job
one use
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
- אֶפְעֶֽה׃ʾefehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a viper
Isaiah
two uses
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
- אֶפְעֶה֙ʾefehnoun · masculine singulartagged: viper
They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
- אֶפְעֶֽה׃ʾefehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a snake
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.
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.