Lexicon echidna: a viper Original Word: ἔχιδνα, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: echidna Phonetic Spelling: (ekh'-id-nah) Short Definition: a serpent, snake, viper Definition: a serpent, snake, viper. HELPS word-Studies 2191 éxidna – properly, a poisonous snake; (figuratively) incisive words that deliver deadly venom, with the use of blasphemy. This switches the bitter for the sweet, light for darkness, etc. 2191/exidna ("viper") then suggests the venomous desire to reverse what is true for what is false. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom echis (a viper, adder) Definitiona viper NASB Translationviper (1), vipers (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2191: ἔχιδναἔχιδνα, 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.
Strong's viper. Of uncertain origin; an adder or other poisonous snake (literally or figuratively) -- viper. |
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