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Bible Lexicons

Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #2191 - ἔχιδνα

Transliteration

échidna

Phonetics

ekh'-id-nah

Origin

of uncertain origin

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TDNT

2:815,286

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

a viper, offspring of vipers
1. addressed to cunning, malignant, wicked men

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

BSB (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

CSB (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

ESV (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

KJV (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

N95 (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

NAS (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

NLT (5)

Matthew 6

Luke 2

Acts 3

WEB (5)

Matthew 3

Luke 1

Acts 1

YLT (4)

Matthew 2

Luke 1

Acts 1

ASV (5)

a viper 1

of vipers 4

BSB (5)

a viper 1

of vipers 4

CSB (5)

viper 1

vipers 4

ESV (5)

viper 1

vipers 4

KJV (5)

viper 1

vipers 4

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (5)

viper 1

vipers 4

N95 (5)

viper 1

vipers 4

NAS (5)

viper 1

vipers 4

NLT (5)

snake 1

snakes 3

vipers 1

WEB (5)

a viper 1

of vipers 4

YLT (4)

a viper 1

of vipers 3

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

ANT

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

BEZ

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

BGB

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

BMT

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

BYZ

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

ELZ

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

NA26

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

SBL

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

SCV

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

STV

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

TIS

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

TRG

N-GPF 4

N-NSF 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἔχιδν-α, ἡ, (ἔχις)

I viper, Hdt. 3.108, S. Tr. 771, Pl. Smp. 218a, etc.; prob. of a constrictor snake, Acts 28:3 : metaph., of a treacherous wife or friend, A. Ch. 249, S. Ant. 531; ἱματισμένη ἔ., of woman, Secund. Sent. 8; γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν brood of vipers, term of reproach, in Matthew 3:7.

II pr. n. of a monster, Hes. Th. 297, S. Tr. 1099.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἔχιδνα, ἐχιδνης, ἡ, a viper: Acts 28:3 (Hesiod, Herodotus, Tragg., Aristophanes, Plato, others); γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν offspring of vipers (anguigenae, Ovid, metam. 3,531), addressed to cunning, malignant, wicked men: Matthew 3:7; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 23:33; Luke 3:7.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** ἔχιδνα , -ης , ἡ ,

[in OT (Aq.), Isaiah 59:5*;]

a viper: Acts 28:3; metaph., γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν , Matthew 3:7; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 23:33, Luke 3:7.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

Ramsay (Luke, p. 63 ff.) has shown that by the ἔχιδνα of Acts 28:3 we are probably to understand a constrictor snake, closely resembling a viper, without poison-fangs, which fixes its teeth firmly into the human skin so as to hang on, without, however, doing any real injury to the skin. The verb καθῆψεν in the sense of ";fastened upon"; rather than ";bit"; (";momordit,"; Blass) is therefore correctly applied to it, as against Harnack Lukas der Arzt, p. 123 f. (E. Tr., p. 177 f.). On γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν as equivalent to the simple ἔχιδναι in Matthew 3:7 see McNeile ad l., following Nestle in ZNTW xiv. p. 267 f.

List of Word Forms

εχιδνα έχιδνα ἔχιδνα εχιδνων εχιδνών ἐχιδνῶν εχίνοι εχίνος εχίνους echidna échidna echidnon echidnôn echidnōn echidnō̂n