# G3789 ὄφις

ὄφις (óphis), Strong’s G3789: a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan KJV: serpent. Occurs 53 times.

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*óphis* — a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan

KJV: serpent

Derived from [ὀπτάνομαι optánomai](https://besorah.bible/word/G3700) (to gaze)

Occurs 53 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 7:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/7?v=10) — Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
- [Matthew 10:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/10?v=16) — “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
- [Matthew 23:33](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/23?v=33) — You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehinnom?
- [Mark 16:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/mark/16?v=18) — 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…
- [Luke 10:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/10?v=19) — Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in…
- [Luke 11:11](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/11?v=11) — “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…
- [John 3:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/3?v=14) — As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
- [1 Corinthians 10:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/10?v=9) — Let’s not test Messiah, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
- [2 Corinthians 11:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/11?v=3) — But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Havah in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from…
- [Revelation 9:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/9?v=19) — For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads…