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Strong's G3789 ὄφις (ophis)

Ophis means “serpent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3789 — kathab (“describe”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3789
Language Greek
Linked Usages 47
Books 23

Strong's G3789 Quick Answer

Strong's G3789 ὄφις (ophis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ophis (of'-is) n. 1. a snake 2. (figuratively, of sly cunning) an artfully malicious person It has 47 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include satan and through. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
ophis (of'-is) n. 1. a snake 2. (figuratively, of sly cunning) an artfully malicious person
Usage
47 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
satan and through

Meaning and Definition

ophis (of'-is) n. 1. a snake 2. (figuratively, of sly cunning) an artfully malicious person 3. (especially) Satan [probably from G3700 (through the idea of sharpness of vision)] KJV: serpent Root(s): G3700

Original Word
ὄφις
Transliteration
ophis
Derivation
Root: ὀπτάνομαι R1: 3700
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3789. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

snake

Usage: 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)

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How Strong's G3789 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ophis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G3789 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 29 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3789 (ὄφις) appears 39 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3789 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3789 in the New Testament

14 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 7:10 KJV

Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Matthew 10:16 KJV

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 23:33 KJV

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Strong's G3789 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

29 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 3:1 Septuagint / Brenton

Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:2 Septuagint / Brenton

And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

Genesis 3:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.

Strong's G3789 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

4 Maccabees 18:8 Septuagint / Brenton

No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:5 Septuagint / Brenton

For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, And they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, Thy wrath endured not forever:

Wisdom of Sirach 21:2 Septuagint / Brenton

Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: For if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee: The teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, Slaying the souls of men.

Usage Excerpts

First 47 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3789.

Genesis 3:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?
Genesis 3:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die.
Genesis 3:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.
Genesis 3:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattle and all the brutes of the earth, on thy breast and belly thou shalt go, and thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.
Genesis 49:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let Dan be a serpent in the way, Besetting the path, Biting the heel of the horse (And the rider shall fall backward),
Exodus 4:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he said, Cast it on the ground: and he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled from it.
Exodus 4:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And this rod that was turned into a serpent thou shalt take in thy hand, wherewith thou shalt work miracles.
Exodus 7:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go to Pharaoh early in the morning: behold, he goes forth to the water; and thou shalt meet him on the bank of the river, and thou shalt take in thy hand the rod that was turned into a serpent.
Numbers 21:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents, and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died.
Numbers 21:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the people came to Moses and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee: pray therefore to the Lord, and let him take away the serpent from us.
Numbers 21:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses prayed to the Lord for the people; and the Lord said to Moses, Make thee a serpent, and put it on a signal-staff; and it shall come to pass that whenever a serpent shall bite a man, everyone so bitten that looks upon it shall live.
Numbers 21:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a signal-staff: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent, he lived.
Deuteronomy 8:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:
4 Kingdoms 18:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
Job 20:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And let him suck the poison of serpents, And let the serpent’s tongue slay him.
Psalms 57:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their venom is like that of a serpent; As that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
Psalms 139:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.
Proverbs 23:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, And venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
Proverbs 30:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.
Ecclesiastes 10:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; And him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.
Ecclesiastes 10:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If a serpent bite when there is no charmer’s whisper, Then there is no advantage to the charmer.
Isaiah 14:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents.
Isaiah 27:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.
Isaiah 65:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents, which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you
Jeremiah 26:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Their voice is as that of a hissing serpent, for they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood.
Amos 5:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
Micah 7:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of thee.
Matthew 7:10 New Testament, KJV
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Matthew 10:16 New Testament, KJV
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Matthew 23:33 New Testament, KJV
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Mark 16:18 New Testament, KJV
They 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 10:19 New Testament, KJV
Behold, 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 11:11 New Testament, KJV
If 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 3:14 New Testament, KJV
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
1 Corinthians 10:9 New Testament, KJV
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
2 Corinthians 11:3 New Testament, KJV
But 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 9:19 New Testament, KJV
For 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 12:9 New Testament, KJV
And 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 12:14 New Testament, KJV
And 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 12:15 New Testament, KJV
And 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 20:2 New Testament, KJV
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
4 Maccabees 18:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
No destroyer of the desert, or ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, snake, make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime.
Wisdom of Solomon 16:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, And they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, Thy wrath endured not forever:
Wisdom of Sirach 21:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent: For if thou comest too near it, it will bite thee: The teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion, Slaying the souls of men.
Wisdom of Sirach 25:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
There is no head above the head of a serpent; And there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3789, grouped by book.

Genesis 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 5 usages, New Testament
4 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3789 FAQ

What does ophis (ὄφις) mean?

Ophis (Strong's G3789) is a Greek word most simply glossed "serpent". ophis (of'-is) n. 1. a snake 2. (figuratively, of sly cunning) an artfully malicious person

How many times is ophis (ὄφις) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 47 linked usages for Strong's G3789 across 23 books.

Where can I study ophis (ὄφις) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3789 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate ophis (ὄφις)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as satan and through. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3789 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 29 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3789, with linked reader references where each row is available.