צֶפַע
tsefa · viper
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6848 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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tsefa (צֶפַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “viper”.
A viper, a poisonous snake.
How to say it
tse·fa
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 with dangerous venom, which hides in its hole.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- cobra ×3
- like a viper ×1
- vipers ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a serpent, and like a viper it stings.
- Isaiah 11:8
And the nursing child will play over the hole of the viper, and over the den of the cobra the weaned child will stretch out his hand.
- Isaiah 14:29
Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for from the root of the serpent will come out a cobra, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
- 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.
- Jeremiah 8:17
“For look, I am sending among you serpents, vipers for which there is no charm, and they will bite you, declares YHWH.”