# H5175 נָחָשׁ

נָחָשׁ (nâchâsh), Strong’s H5175: a snake (from its hiss) KJV: serpent.. Occurs 31 times.

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*nâchâsh* — a snake (from its hiss)

KJV: serpent.

Derived from [נָחַשׁ nâchash](https://besorah.bible/word/H5172) (to hiss, i.e. whisper a)

Occurs 31 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נָחָשׁ n.m. serpent
- 1 serpent
- 2 bronze image of serpent
- 3 mythol. fleeing serpent

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=1) — Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Has…
- [Genesis 3:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=2) — The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,
- [Genesis 3:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=4) — The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
- [Genesis 3:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=13) — The LORD God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
- [Genesis 3:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=14) — The LORD God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every…
- [Genesis 49:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=17) — Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, that bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls…
- [Exodus 4:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=3) — He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.
- [Exodus 7:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/7?v=15) — Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he is going out to the water. You shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him…
- [Numbers 21:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=6) — The LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
- [Numbers 21:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=7) — The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and against you. Pray to…