אֶפְעֶה

«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.

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

Glosses

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

Meaning (OSHB)

viper tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

viper tree →

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.

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 20:16

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.

Isaiah 59:5

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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