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title: אֶפְעֶה — viper · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶפְעֶה (660), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: viper. BDB 1906: viper. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶפְעֶה

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«אֶפְעֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **viper** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 660 · **BDB:** אֶפְעֶה²

### Glosses

a.snake (1); of.a.viper (1); viper (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

viper [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/660/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

viper [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/660/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of viper (Thes ‘a flando et sibilando’; cf. Arabic أَفْعًى viper, Ethiopic አፍዖት: id.);—א׳ Is 30:6; 59:5, לְשׁוֹן א׳ Jb 20:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶפְעֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/660/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 20:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.16/)

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רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].poison of.cobras he.sucks it slays.him \[the\].tongue of.a.viper

*JPS 1917:* He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

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[Isaiah 59:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.59.5/)

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בֵּיצֵ֤י צִפְעוֹנִי֙ בִּקֵּ֔עוּ וְקוּרֵ֥י עַכָּבִ֖ישׁ יֶאֱרֹ֑גוּ הָאֹכֵ֤ל מִבֵּֽיצֵיהֶם֙ יָמ֔וּת וְהַזּוּרֶ֖ה תִּבָּקַ֥ע אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* eggs of.a.viper they.have.hatched and webs of.a.spider they.weave the.\[one who\].eats any of their.eggs he.will.die and the.pressed \[egg\] it.is.hatched a.snake

*JPS 1917:* They hatch basilisks' 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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