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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Serpent

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

38exact KJV occurrences 30Old Testament 8New Testament 17books containing the word 4mapped Strong's IDs 38occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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 shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 20:2

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where serpent appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

Genesis 66 verses Exodus 44 verses Numbers 42 verses 2 Kings 11 verses Job 11 verses Psalms 22 verses Proverbs 22 verses Ecclesiastes 22 verses Isaiah 43 verses Jeremiah 11 verses Amos 22 verses Micah 11 verses Matthew 11 verses Luke 11 verses John 11 verses 2 Corinthians 11 verses Revelation 44 verses
ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH8314
שָׂרָף

sârâph · saw-rawf'

3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

burning, i.e. (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically, a saraph or symbolical creature (from their copper color)

Strong's KJV usage: fiery (serpent), seraph.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 21:8Strong's last: Isaiah 30:6

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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John 3:14
G3789

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

serpent

SER'PENT, noun [Latin serpens, creeping; serpo, to creep.]

1. An animal of the order of Serpentes, [creepers, crawlers, ] Of the class of Amphibia. Serpents are amphibious animals, breathing through the mouth bymeans of lungs only; having tapering bodies, without a distinct neck; the jaws not articulated, but dilatable, and withour feet, fins or ears. Serpents move along the earth by a winding motion, and with the head elevated. Some species of them are viviparous, or rather ovi-viviparous; others are oviparous; and several species are venomous.

2. In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing, according to the British catalogue, sixty-four stars.

3. An instrument of music, serving as a base to the cornet or small shawm, to sustain a chorus of singers in a large edifice. It is so called for its folds or wreaths.

4. Figuratively, a subtil or malicious person.

5. In mythology, a symbol of the sun.

Serpent stones or snake stones, are fossil shells of different sizes, found in strata of stones and clays.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

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