אֶפְעֶה
efe · viper
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H660 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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efe (אֶפְעֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “viper”.
An asp or another poisonous snake.
How to say it
e·fe
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
- A snake whose bite kills, feared for its poison.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- viper ×2
- adder ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 20:16
The poison of vipers he will suck; the tongue of the adder will kill him.
- Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.
- Isaiah 59:5
They hatch cobra eggs, and they weave spider webs; whoever eats of their eggs dies, and the crushed egg breaks open into a viper.