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# שְׁפִיפֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8207

**horned snake** — 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

horned snake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8207/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁפִיפֹן: horned snake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8207/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] horned snake, 𝔊 κεράστης (Arabic سِفٌّ, سُفٌ Frey);—abs. שׁ׳ Gn 49:17 (‖ נָחָשׁ); = cerastes cornutus or Hasselquistii, cf. TrNHB 273 PostHast. DB iv. 457 f. McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. iv. 4393 Drad loc.—שְׁפוּפָם, שְׁפוּפָן vid. s.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.17/#tree)

יְהִי־דָן֙ נָחָ֣שׁ עֲלֵי־דֶ֔רֶךְ שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן עֲלֵי־אֹ֑רַח הַנֹּשֵׁךְ֙ עִקְּבֵי־ס֔וּס וַיִּפֹּ֥ל רֹכְב֖וֹ אָחֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* may.he.be Dan a.snake on a.road a.viper on a.path \[which\] bites \[the\].heels of.a.horse and he.fell rider its backwards

*JPS 1917:* Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a horned snake in the path, that biteth the horse's heels, so that his rider falleth backward.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8207/): 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).