ἑρπετόν
herpeton · reptile, creeping thing
Greek word · Strong’s number G2062 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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herpeton (ἑρπετόν) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “reptile, creeping thing”.
Reptile: an animal that creeps along the ground.
How to say it
her·pe·ton
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
- An animal that crawls on the ground, like a snake.
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- reptiles ×3
- creeping things ×1
Where it appears
- Acts 10:12
in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of the sky.
- Acts 11:6
Staring into it I was observing it and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the reptiles and the birds of the sky.
- Romans 1:23
and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of a corruptible human being and of birds and of four-footed animals and of creeping things.
- James 3:7
For every kind of beasts and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is tamed and has been tamed by humankind,