Strong’s H660 · Hebrew
אֶפְעֶה
ʼephʻeh · ef-eh'
Origin from אֵפַע (H659) (in the sense of hissing);
Meaning an asp or other venomous serpent
In the King James Version viper.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Isaiah 30:6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
- Isaiah 59:5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.