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Koine Greek wordlink #104474

SR GNT Acts 28:3 ἔχιδνα (eⱪidna) ‘on the fire a viper from the heat’ Strongs=21910 Lemma=eχidna
Word role=noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Year=62 AD Event=Paul_stays_at_Malta TimeSeries=Paul_stays_at_Malta,Paul's_Journey_to_Rome Referred to from Word #104480

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Only use of identical word form ἔχιδνα (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἔχιδνα’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘a viper’.

Acts 28:3 ‘on the fire a viper from the heat’ SR GNT Acts 28:3 word 16

OET-LV: 3 But the Paulos having _gathered some multitude of _sticks, and having _laid _on them on the fire, a_viper having _come _out from the heat, clamped _down on _the hand of _him. (ACT_28:3)

OET-RV: 3 However when Paul was helping to pick up sticks and putting them on the fire, a viper was driven out by the heat and clamped its jaws down on his hand. (ACT 28:3)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘eχidna’ have 2 different glosses: ‘a viper’, ‘of vipers’.

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative, feminine, singular