Creature · נָחָשׁ
Serpent
The serpent is a creature who speaks in the garden. Later canon names a dragon and a bronze figure lifted in the wilderness. Those are further witnesses, not the lemma of Genesis 3.
Occurrences
4 charted across 4 books.
Genesis
- Genesis 3:1
The serpent is more crafty than any beast of the field.
- Genesis 3:1
Numbers
- Numbers 21:9
A bronze serpent is lifted so the bitten may live.
- Numbers 21:9
John
- John 3:14
The Son of Man must be lifted up as Moses lifted the serpent.
- John 3:14
Revelation · this book
- Revelation 12:9
The ancient serpent is named the devil and Satan.
- Revelation 12:9