# H6848 צֶפַע

צֶפַע (tsephaʻ), Strong’s H6848: a viper (as thrusting out the tongue, i.e. hissing) KJV: adder, cockatrice.. Occurs 5 times.

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*tsephaʻ* — a viper (as thrusting out the tongue, i.e. hissing)

KJV: adder, cockatrice.

Occurs 5 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/14?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/59?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/8?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/23?v=32) — In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.