אֶפְעֶהʼephʻeh
an asp or other venomous serpent
Pronunciation: ef-eh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H660
Meanings
a kind of viper (Isaiah 30:6; Isaiah 59:5; Job 20:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Job 20:16 They will suck the poison of cobras. The viper will kill them.
- Isaiah 30:6 This message came to me concerning the animals in the Negev: The caravan moves slowly across the terrible desert to Egypt— donkeys weighed down with riches and camels loaded with treasure— all to pay for Egypt’s protection. They travel through the wilderness, a place of lionesses and lions, a place where vipers and poisonous snakes live. All this, and Egypt will give you nothing in return.
- Isaiah 59:5 They hatch deadly snakes and weave spiders’ webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die; whoever cracks them will hatch a viper.
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).