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# עַכְשׁוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5919

**asp** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

asp [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5919/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַכְשׁוּב: n.m. asp, viper spider [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5919/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. usually asp, viper (so 𝔊 𝔙; perhaps conject. from sense and ‖ נָחָשׁ), but perhaps = (? crpt. for) עַכָּבִישׁ spider (q.v.; cf. 𝔗ad loc.);—חֲמַת ע׳ ψ 140:4 a viper’s (? spider’s) venom is under their lips (v. especially Che and reff.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 140:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.140.4/#tree)

שָֽׁנֲנ֣וּ לְשׁוֹנָם֮ כְּֽמוֹ־נָ֫חָ֥שׁ חֲמַ֥ת עַכְשׁ֑וּב תַּ֖חַת שְׂפָתֵ֣ימוֹ סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* they.sharpen tongue their like a.snake \[the\].venom of.a.viper \[is\].under lips their Selah

*JPS 1917:* They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; vipers' venom is under their lips.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5919.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5919/): 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).