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  "type": "word",
  "id": "G3789",
  "lemma": "ὄφις",
  "transliteration": "óphis",
  "definition": "a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan",
  "kjv": "serpent",
  "occurrences": 53,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G3700",
      "lemma": "ὀπτάνομαι",
      "transliteration": "optánomai",
      "meaning": "to gaze",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 7:10",
      "text": "Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/7?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 10:16",
      "text": "“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/10?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Matthew 23:33",
      "text": "You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehinnom?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/23?v=33"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Mark 16:18",
      "text": "they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/16?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 10:19",
      "text": "Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Luke 11:11",
      "text": "“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/11?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "John 3:14",
      "text": "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/3?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Corinthians 10:9",
      "text": "Let’s not test Messiah, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/10?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Corinthians 11:3",
      "text": "But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Havah in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Revelation 9:19",
      "text": "For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/9?v=19"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
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