# נָחָשׁ (nachash)

Israeli respelling: na-chash. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5175. 28 Old Testament occurrences.

a snake (from its hiss)

King James renderings: serpent.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nachash-h5175

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/1) — Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye…
- [Genesis 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/2) — And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
- [Genesis 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/4) — And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
- [Genesis 3:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/13) — And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
- [Genesis 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/14) — And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;…
- [Genesis 49:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/49/17) — Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- [Exodus 4:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/3) — And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
- [Exodus 7:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/15) — Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the r…
- [Numbers 21:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/6) — And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- [Numbers 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/7) — Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, th…
- [Numbers 21:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/21/9) — And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the se…
- [Deuteronomy 8:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/8/15) — Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water;…
- [2 Kings 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/18/4) — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for…
- [Job 26:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/26/13) — By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
- [Psalms 58:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/58/4) — Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- [Psalms 140:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/140/3) — They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
- [Proverbs 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/32) — At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- [Proverbs 30:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/30/19) — The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a ma…
- [Ecclesiastes 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/8) — He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- [Ecclesiastes 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/10/11) — Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.
- [Isaiah 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/29) — Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cocka…
- [Isaiah 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/27/1) — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serp…
- [Isaiah 65:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/65/25) — The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall…
- [Jeremiah 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/8/17) — For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.
- [Jeremiah 46:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/46/22) — The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
- [Amos 5:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/19) — As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
- [Amos 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/3) — And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the b…
- [Micah 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/7/17) — They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our G…