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Noun ophis (serpent) in the Bible
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 7: 10 | Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a serpent (ophis)? |
| 10: 16 | "See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents (ophis) and innocent as doves. |
| 23: 33 | You serpents (ophis), you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? |
Mark
| 16: 18 | they will pick up serpents (ophis) in their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover." |
Luke
| 10: 19 | See, I have given you authority to tread on serpents (ophis) and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing will hurt you. |
| 11: 11 | Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for a fish, will give a serpent (ophis) instead of a fish? |
John
| 3: 14 | And just as Moses lifted up the serpent (ophis) in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, |
1 Corinthians
| 10: 9 | We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by serpents (ophis). |
2 Corinthians
| 11: 3 | But I am afraid that as the serpent (ophis) deceived Eve by its cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. |
Revelation
| 9: 19 | For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; their tails are like serpents (ophis), having heads; and with them they inflict harm. |
| 12: 9 | The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent (ophis), who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world - he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. |
| 12: 14 | But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she could fly from the serpent (ophis) into the wilderness, to her place where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time. |
| 12: 15 | Then from his mouth the serpent (ophis) poured water like a river after the woman, to sweep her away with the flood. |
| 20: 2 | He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent (ophis), who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, |
Genesis (LXX)
| 3: 1 | Now the serpent (ophis) was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent (ophis) said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden? |
| 3: 2 | And the woman said to the serpent (ophis), We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, |
| 3: 4 | And the serpent (ophis) said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die. |
| 3: 13 | And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent (ophis) deceived me and I ate. |
| 3: 14 | And the Lord God said to the serpent (ophis), 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. |
| 49: 17 | And let Dan be a serpent (ophis) in the way, besetting the path, biting the heel of the horse (and the rider shall fall backward), |
Exodus (LXX)
| 4: 3 | And he said, Cast it on the ground: and he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent (ophis), and Moses fled from it. |
| 4: 17 | And this rod that was turned into a serpent (ophis) thou shalt take in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt work miracles. |
| 7: 15 | Go to Pharao 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 thine hand the rod that was turned into a serpent (ophis). |
Numbers (LXX)
| 21: 6 | And the Lord sent among the people deadly serpents (ophis), and they bit the people, and much people of the children of Israel died. |
| 21: 7 | 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 (ophis) from us. |
| 21: 8 | And Moses prayed to the Lord for the people; and the Lord said to Moses, Make thee a serpent (ophis), and put it on a signal-staff; and it shall come to pass that whenever a serpent (ophis) shall bite a man, every one so bitten that looks upon it shall live. |
| 21: 9 | And Moses made a serpent (ophis) of brass, and put it upon a signal-staff: and it came to pass that whenever a serpent (ophis) bit a man, and he looked on the brazen serpent (ophis), he lived. |
Deuteronomy (LXX)
| 8: 15 | who brought thee through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent (ophis), and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee a fountain of water out of the flinty rock: |
2 Kings (LXX: 4 Kings)
| 18: 4 | He removed the high places, and broke in pieces the pillars, and utterly destroyed the groves, and the brazen serpent (ophis) which Moses made: because until those days the children of Israel burnt incense to it: and he called it Neesthan. |
Isaiah (LXX)
| 14: 29 | Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent (ophis) shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents (ophis). |
| 27: 1 | In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent (ophis) that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent (ophis): he shall destroy the dragon. |
| 65: 25 | Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent (ophis) earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord. |
Jeremiah (LXX)
| 8: 17 | For, behold, I send forth against you deadly serpents (ophis), which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite you |
| 46 (26): 22 | Their voice is as that of a hissing serpent (ophis), for they go upon the sand; they shall come upon Egypt with axes, as men that cut wood. |
Amos (LXX)
| 5: 19 | 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 (ophis) should bite him. |
Micah (LXX)
| 7: 17 | They shall lick the dust as serpents (ophis) 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. |
Ecclesiastes (LXX)
| 10: 8 | He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent (ophis) shall bite. |
| 10: 11 | If a serpent (ophis) bite when there is no charmer's whisper, then there is no advantage to the charmer. |
Job (LXX)
| 20: 16 | And let him suck the poison of dragon, and let the serpent (ophis)'s tongue slay him. |
Proverbs (LXX)
| 23: 32 | But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent (ophis), and venom is diffused through him as by a horned reptile. |
| 30: 19 | the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent (ophis) on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth. |
Psalms (LXX)
| 58 (57): 5 | Their venom is like that of a serpent (ophis); as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears; |
| 140 (139): 4 | They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent (ophis); the poison of asps is under their lips. Pause. |
Sirach (LXX)
| 21: 2 | Flee from sin as from the face of a serpent (ophis): 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. |
| 25: 15 | There is no head above the head of a serpent (ophis); and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy. |
Wisdom (LXX)
| 16: 5 | For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, and they perished with the stings of crooked serpents (ophis), thy wrath endured not for ever: |
4 Maccabees (LXX)
| 18: 8 | No destroyer of the desert, [or] ravisher of the plain, injured me; nor did the destructive, deceitful, serpent (ophis), make spoil of my chaste virginity; and I remained with my husband during the period of my prime. |
Psalms of Solomon (LXX)
| 4: 9 | And their eyes (are fixed) upon any man's house that is (still) secure, That they may, like (the) Serpent (ophis), destroy the wisdom of . . . with words of transgressors, |
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