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Gematria of Serpent

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “serpent” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 60 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

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Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
60
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “serpent”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

נָחָשׁnâchâsh×31 in the TanakhH5175

a snake (from its hiss)

Standard 358 →Gadol 358Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 43Atbash 71Perati 92,564Milui 884

First appearance ·Genesis 3:1בראשית ג:אוְהַנָּחָשׁ

See all 28 occurrences of the spelling נחש →

תַּנִּיןtannîyn×26 in the TanakhH8577

a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal

Standard 510 →Gadol 1,160Katan 15Siduri (ordinal) 60Atbash 59Perati 165,100Milui 648

First appearance ·Genesis 1:21בראשית א:כאהַתַּנִּינִם

See all 3 occurrences of the spelling תנין →

זָחַלzâchal×3 in the TanakhH2119

to crawl; by implication, to fear

Standard 45 →Gadol 45Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 27Atbash 150Perati 1,013Milui 559

First appearance ·Deuteronomy 32:24דברים לב:כדזֹחֲלֵי

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What is the gematria of serpent?

The Tanakh renders “serpent” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נחש = 358, תנין = 510 and זחל = 45.

How do you say serpent in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “serpent”; the most frequent are נחש (nâchâsh), 31 times; תנין (tannîyn), 26 times; זחל (zâchal), 3 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.