noun · feminine
echidnas
Strong’sG2191
a serpent, snake, viper
stem echidn-5 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἔχιδνα, -ης, ἡ,
[in OT (Aq.), Is 59:5*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2191 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidekh'-id-nah
an adder or other poisonous snake (literally or figuratively)
Fromof uncertain origin;
King Jamesviper.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἔχις) viper, Refs 5th c.BC+; probably of a constrictor snake, NT+5th c.BC+; ἱματισμένη ἔ., of woman, Refs 2nd c.AD+; γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν brood of vipers, term of reproach, in NT
II proper name of a monster, Refs 8th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | echidnas1×ἔχιδνα | echidnais |
| object accusative | echidnan | echidnain |
| direct address vocative | echidnar | echidnair |
| of, belonging to genitive | echidnau | echidnaiu4×ἐχιδνῶν |
| to, for dative | echidna | echidnai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
echidna is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
echidnas“viper”subjectnominative singular1×
Acts 28:3… plēthem kai epititharantou epi tan puran, echidnas apo tau thermau exercharantas kathaptata tau …… laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened …
echidnaiu“vipers”of, belonging togenitive plural4×
Matthew 3:7… tem baptismem autou legata autoi; Gennēmeim echidnaiu, tinos hupodeikata vi fugara apo tau …… said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from …
Matthew 12:34gennēmeim echidnaiu, pōs dunovō agatheim lalarō ponērois arōntois? …You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil …
Matthew 23:33ofioir gennēmeim echidnaiu, pōs fugaveia apo tau krisiau tau …You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence …
Luke 3:7… ekporeuorōntoi ochloi baptizira hupo autou; Gennēmeim echidnaiu, tinos hupodeikata vi fugara apo tau …… baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from …