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Strong's #5175 - נָחָשׁ
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- serpent, snake
- serpent
- image (of serpent)
- fleeing serpent (mythological)
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1 serpent:
a. as biting, Amos 5:19; Ecclesiastes 10:8, in spite of charm (לַחַשׁ) Ecclesiastes 10:11 [compare Ecculs Ecclesiastes 12:13], Jeremiah 8:17 (+ צִפְעֹנִים; figurative of enemies); so הַנְּחָשִׁים הַשְׁרָפִים Numbers 21:6 (deadly; J E; compare Jacob Arab. Dicht. iv. 10 ff.), and singular Numbers 21:9, also (collective) Numbers 21:7 compare שָׂרָף׳נ Deuteronomy 8:15 (+ עַקְרָב); ׳נ figurative of oppressor, מִשֹּׁרֶשׁ נָחָשׁ יֵצֵא צֶפַע וּפִרְיוֺ שָׂרָף מְעוֺפֵף Isaiah 14:29; figurative of Dan Genesis 49:17 (poem in J; "" שְׁפִיפֹן); ׳הֲמַת נ Psalm 58:5 (simile of perniciousness of ungodly), compare ׳נ Psalm 140:4; simile of effect of wine Proverbs 22:32 ("" צִפִעֹנִי).
b. rod becomes׳נ Exodus 4:3 (J), compare Exodus 7:15 (E); ׳עֲלֵי צוּר דֶּרֶךְ נ Proverbs 30:19.
c.׳נ (apparently) as hissing Jeremiah 46:22 (in simile, compare Gie); as eating dust Isaiah 65:25 compare Micah 7:17 (in simile; see also Genesis 3:14).
d. as crafty tempter Genesis 3:1,2,4,13,14.
2 (הַ)נְּחשֶׁת׳נ, bronze image of serpent Numbers 21:9 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 18:4 (compare נְחֻשְׁתָּן).
3 mythological בָּרִחַ׳נ Job 26:13 fleeing serpent, of eclipse-dragon (compareלִנְיָתָן Job 3:6); also בּרִחַ ֗֗֗ ׳לִוְיָתָן נ עֲקַלָּתוֺן׳לִוְיָתָן נ Isaiah 27:1 (symbolic of world-powers); ׳נ of sea-monster Amos 9:3. — ׳נ with verb נָשַׁךְ bite Numbers 21:6 8t. On supernatural character of serpents in Arabic belief see Nö Zeitschr. Für Völkerpsychol. i.(1860), 412-416 RS Kinship 197, Semitic i. 421f., 2 d ed, 442We Skizzen iii.147, Arab. Heid. 2,152f. Jacob Arab. Dicht. iv. 5
נָחָשׁ m.
(1) a serpent, so called from its hissing (see the root) Genesis 3:1, seq.; Exodus 4:3, 7:15 2 Kings 18:4. Used of the constellation of the serpent or dragon in the northern part of the sky, Arab. حَيَّة Job 26:13.
(2) [Nahash], pr.n.
(a) of a town otherwise unknown, 1 Chronicles 4:12.
(b) of a king of the Ammonites, 1 Samuel 11:1; 2 Samuel 10:2, and of various men.
(c) 2 Samuel 17:27.
(d) 2 Samuel 17:25.