8207. shephiphon
Lexicon
shephiphon: Viper, serpent

Original Word: שְׁפִיפֹן
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: shphiyphon
Pronunciation: she-fee-fon
Phonetic Spelling: (shef-ee-fone')
KJV: adder
NASB: horned snake
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning the same as H7779 (שׁוּף - bruise)]

1. a kind of serpent (as snapping), probably the cerastes or horned adder

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
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

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
horned viper
NASB Translation
horned 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 TrNBB 273 PostHast. DB iv. 457 f. McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. iv. 4393 Dron the passageשְׁפוּפָם, שְׁפוּפָן see S. V.

Forms and Transliterations
שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן שפיפן šə·p̄î·p̄ōn šəp̄îp̄ōn shefiFon
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Englishman's Concordance
Genesis 49:17
HEB: עֲלֵי־ דֶ֔רֶךְ שְׁפִיפֹ֖ן עֲלֵי־ אֹ֑רַח
NAS: in the way, A horned snake in the path,
KJV: by the way, an adder in the path,
INT: in the way A horned in the path

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 8207
1 Occurrence


šə·p̄î·p̄ōn — 1 Occ.

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