Lexical Summary shephiphon: horned viper Original Word: שְׁפִיפֹןTransliteration: shephiphon Phonetic Spelling: (shef-ee-fone') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: horned viper Meaning: a kind of serpent, the cerastes, horned adder Strong's 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H8207. shephiphon 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 passage — שְׁפוּפָן שְׁפוּפָם, see S. V. |
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