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# serpent

«serpent» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **snake** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

snake

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A snake, especially a large one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/serpent/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today serpent is literary or old-fashioned; everyday speech says snake. The sentences use the same sense as the dictionary.

### examples

- And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die; (Torah GEN.3.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/serpent/#x1)
- THE SERPENT-TSAREVICH AND HIS TWO WIVES (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/serpent/#x2)
- Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps. (Torah DEU.32.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/serpent/#x3)

### primary record

serpent

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 348 (Torah 14, tales 331, Sefer Yetzirah 3); EWT 1; ratio 13.1 (Torah alone 10.9); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### In the corpora

- [Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.60/)
- [And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.62/)
- [And the serpent said unto the woman: 'Ye shall not surely die;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.64/)
- [For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.189/)
- [And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.761/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «serpent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/serpent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.