ophis · snake

What it means

ophis (ὄφις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “snake”.

Serpent.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A legless reptile, often venomous; also a figure of the devil.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• serpent ×6
• snakes ×4
• serpents ×2
• snake ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• John×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Revelation×5

• Matthew 7:10

  Or if he also asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?

• Matthew 10:16

  Look, I am sending you like sheep among wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

• Matthew 23:33

  Snakes, offspring of vipers, how will you escape from the judgment of Gehenna?

• Mark 16:18

  they will pick up snakes; and if they drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”

• Luke 10:19

  Look, I have given you the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will ever harm you.

• Luke 11:11

  And which of you fathers, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

• John 3:14

  And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

• 1 Corinthians 10:9

  Nor let us put the Messiah to the test, as some of them tested him, and they were being destroyed by the snakes.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3

  But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward the Messiah.

• Revelation 9:19

  For the authority of the horses is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do harm.

• Revelation 12:9

  And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, the one called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole inhabited world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

• Revelation 12:14

  And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished there for a time and times and half a time, away from the presence of the serpent.

• Revelation 12:15

  And the serpent threw out of his mouth water like a river after the woman, so that he might make her swept away by the river.

• Revelation 20:2

  And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,