Word Summary
echidna: a viper
Original Word: ἔχιδναTransliteration: echidna
Phonetic Spelling: (ekh'-id-nah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a viper
Meaning: a viper
Strong's Concordance
viper.
Of uncertain origin; an adder or other poisonous snake (literally or figuratively) -- viper.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2191: ἔχιδναἔχιδνα,
ἐχιδνης,
ἡ,
a viper:
Acts 28:3 (
Hesiod,
Herodotus, Tragg.,
Aristophanes,
Plato, others);
γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν offspring of vipers (anguigenae,
Ovid, metam. 3,531), addressed to cunning, malignant, wicked men:
Matthew 3:7;
Matthew 12:34;
Matthew 23:33;
Luke 3:7.