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שְׁפִיפֹן

she.phi.phon

horned viper

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Strong’s H8207Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a viper1

In the text

Genesis 49:17שְׁפִיפֹן
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.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שְׁפִיפֹן n.[m.] horned snake;—abs. Gn 49:17

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.