Viper
vi'-per ('eph`eh (Job 20:16; Isa 30:6; 59:5); echidna (Mt 3:7
= Lk 3:7; Mt 12:34; 23:33; Acts 28:3)): Several vipers are
found in Israel, but it is not certain that 'eph`eh referred
definitely to any of them.
See SERPENT.
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-A serpent
Job 20:16; Isa 30:6; 59:5
-Fastens on Paul's hand
Ac 28:3
-See SERPENT
-FIGURATIVE
Mt 3:7; 23:33; Lu 3:7
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In Job 20:16, Isa. 30:6; 59:5, the Heb. word eph'eh is thus
rendered. The Hebrew word, however, probably denotes a
species
of poisonous serpents known by the Arabic name of 'el
ephah.
Tristram has identified it with the sand viper, a
species of
small size common in sandy regions, and frequently
found under
stones by the shores of the Dead Sea. It is rapid in
its
movements, and highly poisonous. In the New Testament
_echidne_
is used (Matt. 3:7; 12:34; 23:33) for any poisonous
snake. The
viper mentioned in Acts 28:3 was probably the vipera
aspis, or
the Mediterranean viper. (See ADDER -T0000085.)
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(See ADDER; SERPENT.) Epheh (Isaiah 59:5); viviparous, as the
derivation of viper implies. Symbol of hypocrisy and malignity
(Matthew 3:7; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 23:33).
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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of
trouble and anguish, from whence [come] the young and old
lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry
their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their
treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people [that] shall
not profit [them].
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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he
that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed
breaketh out into a viper.
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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid [them]
on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened
on his hand.
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