King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8207
Transliteration: shephiphon
Phonetic Spelling: (shef-ee-fone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: horned viper
Meaning: a kind of serpent, the cerastes, horned adder
Word Summary
shephiphon: horned viper
Original Word: שְׁפִיפֹןTransliteration: shephiphon
Phonetic Spelling: (shef-ee-fone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: horned viper
Meaning: a kind of serpent, the cerastes, horned adder
Strong's Concordance
adder From an unused root meaning the same as shuwph; a kind of serpent (as snapping), probably the cerastes or horned adder -- adder.
see HEBREW shuwph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8207. shephiphon
שְׁפִיפֹן noun [masculine] horned snake, ᵐ5 κεράστης (Arabic , Frey); — absolute ׳שׁ Genesis 49:17 ("" נָחָשׁ); = cerastes cornutus or Hasselquistii, compare TrNBB 273 PostHast. DB iv. 457 f. McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. iv. 4393 Dron the passage — שְׁפוּפָן שְׁפוּפָם, see S. V.