ὄφις óphis

Meaning

a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan

In the King James Version: serpent

Derivation: probably from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι) (through the idea of sharpness of vision);

Where it is used

• Matthew 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
• Matthew 10:16 Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
• Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
• Mark 16:18 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.”
• Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
• Luke 11:11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
• John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
• 1 Corinthians 10:9 We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
• 2 Corinthians 11:3 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.
• Revelation 9:19 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.
• Revelation 12:9 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.
• Revelation 12:14 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.
• Revelation 12:15 Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river to overtake the woman and sweep her away in the torrent.
• Revelation 20:2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.