Lexicon shephiphon: horned viper Original Word: שְׁפִיפֹןPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shephiphon Phonetic Spelling: (shef-ee-fone') Short Definition: snake NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionhorned viper NASB Translationhorned snake (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שְׁפִיפֹן noun [masculine] horned snake, ᵐ5 κεράστης (Arabic  ,  Frey); — absolute ׳שׁ Genesis 49:17 ("" נָחָשׁ); = cerastes cornutus or Hasselquistii, compare Tr NBB 273 Post Hast. DB iv. 457 f. McLean-Shipley Ency. Bib. iv. 4393 Dr on the passage — שְׁפוּפָם, שְׁפוּפָן see S. V. Strong's adder From an unused root meaning the same as shuwph; a kind of serpent (as snapping), probably the cerastes or horned adder -- adder. see HEBREW shuwph |
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