Genesis 3:1
וְ הַ נָּחָשׁ הָיָה עָרוּם מִ כֹּל חַיַּת הַ שָּׂדֶה אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה יְהוָה אֶלֹהִים וַ יֹּאמֶר אֶל הָ אִשָּׁה אַף כִּי אָמַר אֶלֹהִים לֹא תֹאכְלוּ מִ כֹּל עֵץ הַ גָּן
And the Serpent109 has become a prudent-one110 from the whole of a living-one of the Field whom Yahweh has made elohim, and he is speaking toward the Woman a nostril/anger, for elohim has spoken, 'You-all are not eating from the whole of a wood of the Enclosure.'110b
| 109 | Anti-Serpent or Serpent? Strong’s #5175, נָחָשׁ nachash. Hissing-one or bronze-one? Said to be from an unused verb to hiss. Derivatives however are brass/bronze nachush (#5153) and nechoshet (#5178): “If my flesh is a bronze-one [nachush]?” Job 6:12 RBT “And Moses is making a bronze serpent [nechoshet nachash] and he is placing him upon a flag-ensign; and he has become, if the Serpent has bitten [from beginning to the end אֶת־] a man, and he has looked toward the Bronze serpent [nechoshet nachash], and he has lived.” Num. 21:9 RBT |