H5391aVerb12 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Genesis 49:17הַנֹּשֵׁךְ
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.
- Numbers 21:6וַיְנַשְּׁכוּ
So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
- Proverbs 23:32יִשָּׁךְ
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8יִשְּׁכֶנּוּ
He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.
- Jeremiah 8:17וְנִשְּׁכוּ
“For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
- Amos 9:3וּנְשָׁכָם
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.
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Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.