צִפְעֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew

viper — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

viper tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִפְעוֹנִי: n.m. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. id.;—abs. צ׳ Is 11:8 (‖ פָּ֑תֶן), בֵּיצֵי צ׳ 59:5; כְּצִפְעֹנִי Pr 23:32 (sim.; ‖ נָחָשׁ); pl. צִפְעֹנִים Je 8:17 (app. נְחָשִׁים); identif. dub.; TristrNHB 275 (‘poss.’) daboia xanthina, a venomous viper, but vipers do not lay eggs FurrerRi HWB 2, 1423; Further proposes ailurophis vivax.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of a viper (2); a viper (1); vipers (1).

In the verses

Proverbs 23:32 · tree →

אַ֭חֲרִיתוֹ כְּנָחָ֣שׁ יִשָּׁ֑ךְ וּֽכְצִפְעֹנִ֥י יַפְרִֽשׁ׃

Word for word: end its like a.snake it.will.bite and like a.viper it.will.sting

JPS 1917: At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like a basilisk.

Isaiah 11:8 · tree →

וְשִֽׁעֲשַׁ֥ע יוֹנֵ֖ק עַל־חֻ֣ר פָּ֑תֶן וְעַל֙ מְאוּרַ֣ת צִפְעוֹנִ֔י גָּמ֖וּל יָד֥וֹ הָדָֽה׃

Word for word: and he.will.play a.sucking.child over [the].hole of.a.cobra and over [the].nest of.a.viper a.weaned.[child] hand his he.will.put.out

JPS 1917: And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the basilisk's den.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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