נָחָשׁnâchâsh
Pronunciation: naw-khawsh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5175
Meanings
1. serpent
2. (הַ)נְּחשֶׁת ׳ נ, bronze image of serpent (Numbers 21:9; 2 Kings 18:4)
3. mythological (Job 26:13; Job 3:6; Isaiah 27:1)
Same root
- נָחַשׁnâchash · H5172properly, to hiss, i.e. whisper a (magic) spell; generally, to prognosticate
- נָחוּשׁnâchûwsh · H5153coppery, i.e. (figuratively) hard
- נָחָשׁNâchâsh · H5176Nachash, the name of two persons apparently non-Israelite
- עִיר נָחָשׁʻÎyr Nâchâsh · H5904Ir-Nachash, a place in Palestine
- פִּינְחָסPîynᵉchâç · H6372Pinechas, the name of three Israelites
Where it appears
Appears 31 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 3:1 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”
- Genesis 3:2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
- Genesis 3:4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman.
- Genesis 3:13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”
- Genesis 3:14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed more than all animals, domestic and wild. You will crawl on your belly, groveling in the dust as long as you live.
- Genesis 49:17 Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse’s hooves so its rider is thrown off.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).