Strong’s H6848 · Hebrew
צֶפַע
tsephaʻ · tseh'-fah or tsiphoniy tsif-o-nee'
Origin from an unused root meaning to extrude;
Meaning a viper (as thrusting out the tongue, i.e. hissing)
In the King James Version adder, cockatrice.
In 5 verses of the King James Version
- Proverbs 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Isaiah 11:8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
- Isaiah 14:29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 8:17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
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.