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a snake Original Word: ὄφιςTransliteration: ophis Phonetic Spelling: (of'-is) Short Definition: serpent
a prim. word Definition a snake NASB Word Usage serpent (6), serpents (6), snake (2). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
Probably from optanomai (through the idea of sharpness of vision); a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan -- serpent. see GREEK optanomai ὄφεις (opheis) − 3 Occurrences ὄφεσιν (ophesin) − 1 Occurrence ὄφεων (opheōn) − 2 Occurrences
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