59 verses contain “serpent” (in the KJV: 56, in the BSB: 24) — showing 1–59
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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?
Now the
serpent was more
crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
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.
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The
serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I
ate.”
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; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
So the LORD God said to the
serpent: “Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all
livestock and every beast of the field! On your
belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
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.
He will be a
snake by the road, a
viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
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.
“Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a
snake, and he ran from it.
When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying,
Shew a
miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a
serpent.
“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a
miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a
serpent.”
And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became
serpents: but Aaron’s rod
swallowed up their rods.
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a
serpent. But Aaron’s staff
swallowed up the other staffs.
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 rod which was turned to a
serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
Go to Pharaoh in the morning as you see him walking out to the water. Wait on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that was changed into a
snake.
And the LORD sent
fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
So the LORD sent
venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were
bitten and died.
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, that he take away the
serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have
sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you.
Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses
interceded for the people.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a
fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is
bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a
fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When
anyone who is
bitten looks at it, he will live.”
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
serpent of brass, he lived.
So Moses made a bronze
snake and mounted it on a pole. If
anyone who was
bitten looked at the bronze
snake, he would live.
Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were
fiery serpents, and scorpions, and
drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
He led you through the vast and
terrifying wilderness with its
venomous snakes and scorpions, a
thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
They shall be burnt with hunger, and
devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of
serpents of the dust.
They will be wasted from hunger and
ravaged by
pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the
venom of vipers that
slither in the dust.
Their wine is the poison of
dragons, and the cruel
venom of asps.
Their wine is the
venom of
serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
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 unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it
Nehushtan.
He removed the high places,
shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also
demolished the bronze
snake called
Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had burned incense to it.
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the
dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the
Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I
inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
By his spirit he hath
garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the
crooked serpent.
By His breath the
skies were cleared; His hand pierced the
fleeing serpent.
Their poison is like the poison of a
serpent: they are like the
deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Thou shalt
tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the
dragon shalt thou
trample under feet.
They have sharpened their tongues like a
serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips.
Selah.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
In the end it bites like a
snake and stings like a
viper.
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
maid.
the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a
snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a
maiden.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and
whoso breaketh an
hedge, a
serpent shall
bite him.
He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be
bitten by a
snake.
If the
snake bites before it is charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.
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
cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a
fiery flying
serpent.
Do not
rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a
viper will spring from the root of the
snake, and a flying
serpent from its egg.
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and
anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the
viper and
fiery flying
serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young
asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of
hardship and distress, of
lioness and lion, of
viper and flying
serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of
donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
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 not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the
serpent will be dust. They will neither
harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
For, behold, I will send
serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall
bite you, saith the LORD.
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will
bite you,” declares the LORD.
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.
Egypt will hiss like a
fleeing serpent, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like
woodsmen cutting down trees.
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.
It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to
encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be
bitten by a
snake.
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 bottom of the sea, thence will I command the
serpent, and he shall
bite them:
Though they hide themselves
atop Carmel, there I will
track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the
serpent to
bite them.
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 God, and shall fear because of thee.
They will
lick the dust like a
snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will
crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will
tremble in fear of You.
Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a
snake?
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves: be ye therefore wise as
serpents, and
harmless as doves.
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among
wolves; therefore be as
shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the
damnation of
hell?
You snakes! You
brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of
hell?
They shall take up
serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
they will
pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not
harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
Behold, I give unto you power to
tread on
serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means
hurt you.
Behold, I have given you authority to
tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will
harm you.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a
snake instead?
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Just as Moses lifted up the
snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
Neither let us
tempt Christ, as some of them also
tempted, and were destroyed of
serpents.
We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
But I fear, lest by any means, as the
serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
I am afraid, however, that just as
Eve was
deceived by the
serpent’s
cunning, your minds may be led
astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of
serpents, and of things in the sea, is
tamed, and hath been
tamed of mankind:
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being
tamed and have been
tamed by man,
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto
serpents, and had heads, and with them they do
hurt.
For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails; indeed, their tails were like snakes, having heads with which to
inflict harm.
And the great
dragon was cast out, that old
serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And the great
dragon was
hurled down—that ancient
serpent called the devil and
Satan, the
deceiver of the whole world. He was
hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is
nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the
serpent.
But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the
serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was
nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
Then from the mouth of the
serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and
sweep her away in the
torrent.
And he laid hold on the
dragon, that old
serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
He seized the
dragon, that ancient
serpent who is the devil and
Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
For when the
horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, and they perished with the stings of
crooked serpents, thy wrath
endured not for ever:
For though no terrible thing did fear them; yet being
scared with beasts that passed by, and
hissing of
serpents,
Who will
pity a charmer that is
bitten with a
serpent, or any such as come
nigh wild beasts?
Flee from sin as from the face of a
serpent: for if thou comest too near it, it will
bite thee: the teeth thereof are as the teeth of a lion,
slaying the souls of men.
There is no head above the head of a serpent; and there is no wrath above the wrath of an enemy.
Teeth of wild beasts, and scorpions,
serpents, and the sword
punishing the wicked to destruction.
