serpent 
ser·pent (sʉr′pənt)
noun
- a snake, esp. a large or poisonous one
- Satan, in the form he assumed to tempt Eve: Gen. 3:1-5
- a sly, sneaking, treacherous person
- Music an early coiled, bass wind instrument of wood covered with leather
Etymology: OFr < L serpens (gen. serpentis) < prp. of serpere, to creep < IE base *serp-, to creep > Sans sárpati, (he) creeps, Gr herpein
Converse of object
- beguil: And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
- entwine: The statue's base is decorated with the symbol for medicine, two serpents entwined around a staff.
- plume: The snake is another common subject of sculpture and is often shown as Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent.
- bruise: I have bruised the serpent, I have passed.
- coil: At the base of the spine is the root chakra, the coiled serpent of sexual energy.
- crush: In passing sentence on the serpent, he promises, that Eve's descendant will crush the serpent 's head.
Converse of subject
- bite: You would have thought the poor kid had been bitten by a serpent.
Adjective modifier
- brazen: This is to believe on the Son of God lifted up; which is compared with looking to the brazen serpent.
- venomous: When the hook is slid underneath the body of a venomous serpent, the snake may be safely lifted and carried about.
- fiery: From that snake a poisonous snake will be born, a fiery serpent to destroy you!
- cosmic: Note the Leonine head appearing above the bindings of the cosmic serpent.
- sacred: The Romans were directed by the priests of Epidaurus to build a temple in Rome, and were presented with a sacred serpent.
- giant: Legend has it that a giant serpent, similar to the Loch Ness Monster, lives in Sweden's fifth largest lake.
Modifies a noun
- god: It is also the legendary birthplace of Quetzalcóatl, the Aztec serpent god.
Noun used with modifier
- bronze: In the passage of the fiery snakes, Moses is instructed by God to make a bronze serpent and set it on a standard.
- sea: Your child will get to help Ariel rescue the King of the sea from the evil clutches of Electra the sea serpent.
- brass: Maybe you'd like a brass serpent or a stone dire tiger to guard your home.
Possessives
- tooth: Where the serpent's tooth is, shun the tree.
- head: In The High History of the Holy Grail the Castle of the Whale episode tells of the whale with a serpent's head.
Preposition: in
- wilderness: March 27th The serpent in the wilderness, published in Weekly visitor.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the L.
And now, when I have summed up all my store, Thinking (so I myself deceive) So rich a chaplet thence to weave As never yet the King of Glory wore, Alas! I find the serpent old, That, twining in his speckled breast, About the flowers disguised does fold With wreaths of fame and interest.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought againstthe dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And the man said,The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the L God said unto the woman,What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said,The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
No, the serpent did not Seduce Eve to the apple. All that's simply Corruption of the facts. Adam ate the apple. Eve ate Adam. The serpent ate Eve. This is the dark intestine. The serpent, meanwhile, Sleeps his meal off in Paradiseö Smiling to hear God's querulous calling.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
Hethat diggetha pit shall fall intoit; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the L God had made.
Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.
Theyare as venomous as the poison of a serpent: even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears; Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer: charm he never so wisely.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
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