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# אֶפְעֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H660

**viper** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

viper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/660/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶפְעֶה²: viper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/660/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of viper (Thes ‘a flando et sibilando’; cf. Arabic أَفْعًى viper, Ethiopic አፍዖት: id.);—א׳ Is 30:6; 59:5, לְשׁוֹן א׳ Jb 20:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a snake (1); of a viper (1); viper (1).

## In the verses

[Job 20:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.16/#tree)

רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].poison of.cobras he.sucks it slays.him \[the\].tongue of.a.viper

*JPS 1917:* He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

[Isaiah 59:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/#tree)

בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* eggs of.a.viper they.have.hatched and webs of.a.spider they.weave the.\[one who\].eats any of their.eggs he.will.die and the.pressed \[egg\] it.is.hatched a.snake

*JPS 1917:* They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/660.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/660/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).