Strong's G3789
ὄφις
- Transliteration
- óphis
- Definition
- a snake, figuratively, (as a type of sly cunning) an artful malicious person, especially Satan
- KJV usage
- serpent
- Derivation
- probably from G3700 (ὀπτάνομαι) (through the idea of sharpness of vision);
From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), Greek dictionary. Data: Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA.