Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
serpent
Usage: 1) serpent, snake 1a) serpent 1b) image (of serpent) 1c) fleeing serpent (mythological)
Nachash means “serpent” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5175 — trogyllion (“Trogyllium”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5175 נָחָשׁ (nachash) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. nachash (naw-khawsh') n-m. 1. a snake (from its hiss) [from H5172] It has 28 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include serpent, serpents, and serpent's. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
nachash (naw-khawsh') n-m. 1. a snake (from its hiss) [from H5172] KJV: serpent. Root(s): H5172
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serpent
Usage: 1) serpent, snake 1a) serpent 1b) image (of serpent) 1c) fleeing serpent (mythological)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nachash, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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.
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28 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
First 28 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5175.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5175, grouped by book.
Nachash (Strong's H5175) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "serpent". nachash (naw-khawsh') n-m. 1. a snake (from its hiss) [from H5172]
This page currently indexes 28 linked usages for Strong's H5175 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5175 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as serpent, serpents, and serpent's. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.