Original Language Studio
Genesis 3:1
“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?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H5175 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a snake (from its hiss)
- Derivation
- from H5172 (נָחַשׁ);
- KJV renderings
- serpent.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- הַ — particle (definite article)
- נָּחָשׁ֙ — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 31 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:2Genesis 3:4Genesis 3:13Genesis 3:14Genesis 49:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read נָחָשׁ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.