Strong G3789ὄφις
snake
- Transliteration
- ophis
- Pronunciation
- of'-is
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake figuratively (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person especially Satan: - serpent.
Detailed definition
ὄφις, -εως, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for נָחָשׁ;]
a serpent, snake: Mat.7:10 Mrk.16:18, Luk.10:19 11:11, Jhn.3:14, 1Co.10:9, Rev.9:19; as typical of wisdom and cunning, Mat.10:16 23:23, 2Co.11:3 (cf. Gen.31:1-55); of Satan (cf. Gen.3:1, Wis.2:23-24, 4Ma.18:8), Rev.12:9, 14 12:11 20:2.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for נָחָשׁ;]
a serpent, snake: Mat.7:10 Mrk.16:18, Luk.10:19 11:11, Jhn.3:14, 1Co.10:9, Rev.9:19; as typical of wisdom and cunning, Mat.10:16 23:23, 2Co.11:3 (cf. Gen.31:1-55); of Satan (cf. Gen.3:1, Wis.2:23-24, 4Ma.18:8), Rev.12:9, 14 12:11 20:2.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G3789 appears in 14 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- serpent14
First verses
- Matthew 7:10Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
- Matthew 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Matthew 23:33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
- Mark 16:18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
- Luke 10:19Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
- Luke 11:11If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
- John 3:14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
- 1 Corinthians 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
- 2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- Revelation 9:19For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.
- Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
- Revelation 12:14And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
- Revelation 12:15And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
- Revelation 20:2And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
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Related words
Word family
Detailed Greek dictionary
ὄφις, ὁ,
genitive ὄφεως, poetry also ὄφεος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 703, “Ba.” 1026, 1331)]; Doric dialect and Ionic dialect ὄφιος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 322, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.81, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 82)]:—serpent, αἰόλος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.208; γλαυκῶπα ποικιλόνωτον ὄφιν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.249, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 544, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1328, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112d, “R.” 358b, etc.)]; ὁ ψυχρὸς ὄ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.58)]; equivalent to δράκων in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 322, 825: _metaphorically_, πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν, of an arrow, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 181.)]
II like{δράκων}, a serpent-like bracelet, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 387, 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Philosophus Comedy texts 33, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 22)]; ὄφεις is Attic dialect for ψέλλια accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus p.288 P.)]
II.2 τρικάρηνος ὄ. ὁ χάλκεος dedicated at Delphi (= [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 31), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.81.)]
III the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Serpens”, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 82, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.18.)]
IV a creeping plant, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.114.)]
V a kind of fish, see at {ὀφίδιον} [Refs (11.)]
VI guinea-worm (elsewhere δρακόντιον), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “Interrog.” 65.)]
VII ={ὀφίασις} I, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 6.4, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.192)]. [The first syllable is sometimes made long in the older Poets, αἰόλον ὄφιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.208, compare 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 49.6; so ὀφιοέσσης 5th-6th c.BC: Antimachus Colophonius Elegiacus et Epicus 78. It was then pronounced (and perhaps written) ὄπφις, ὀπφιοέσσης, see Eust. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place])] —The ultima of the _nominative_ and _accusative_ ὄφις, ὄφιν is commonly long, as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 334, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 928, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1269, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 4.22)]; short only in later Poets, as [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.128, 1398, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 578.])]
genitive ὄφεως, poetry also ὄφεος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 703, “Ba.” 1026, 1331)]; Doric dialect and Ionic dialect ὄφιος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 322, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.81, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 82)]:—serpent, αἰόλος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.208; γλαυκῶπα ποικιλόνωτον ὄφιν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.249, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 544, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1328, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 112d, “R.” 358b, etc.)]; ὁ ψυχρὸς ὄ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.58)]; equivalent to δράκων in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 322, 825: _metaphorically_, πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν, of an arrow, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 181.)]
II like{δράκων}, a serpent-like bracelet, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 387, 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Philosophus Comedy texts 33, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Epistulae” 22)]; ὄφεις is Attic dialect for ψέλλια accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus p.288 P.)]
II.2 τρικάρηνος ὄ. ὁ χάλκεος dedicated at Delphi (= [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“SIG” 31), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.81.)]
III the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“Serpens”, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 82, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.18.)]
IV a creeping plant, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.114.)]
V a kind of fish, see at {ὀφίδιον} [Refs (11.)]
VI guinea-worm (elsewhere δρακόντιον), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “Interrog.” 65.)]
VII ={ὀφίασις} I, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 6.4, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.192)]. [The first syllable is sometimes made long in the older Poets, αἰόλον ὄφιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.208, compare 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 49.6; so ὀφιοέσσης 5th-6th c.BC: Antimachus Colophonius Elegiacus et Epicus 78. It was then pronounced (and perhaps written) ὄπφις, ὀπφιοέσσης, see Eust. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place])] —The ultima of the _nominative_ and _accusative_ ὄφις, ὄφιν is commonly long, as in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 334, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 928, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.1269, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 4.22)]; short only in later Poets, as [Refs 4th c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.128, 1398, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 578.])]