H6848 צֶפַע
tsephaʻ — a viper (as thrusting out the tongue, i.e. hissing)
KJV: adder, cockatrice.
Occurs 5 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- צֶ֫פַע n.m. a (poisonous) serpent (from hissing ?);—Is 14:29; usu. taken as = following [r.dj.ac].
- צִפְעוֹנִי n.m
- צִפְעוֹנִי n.m. id. [r.dj.ab]; a venomous viper, but vipers do not lay eggs
Where it occurs
- Isaiah 11:8 — The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
- Isaiah 14:29 — Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an…
- Isaiah 59:5 — They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks…
- Jeremiah 8:17 — “For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says the LORD.
- Proverbs 23:32 — In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.