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- The fiery flying serpent (Hebrew: שָׂרָף מְעוֹפֵף sārāf mə‘ōfēf; Greek: ἔκγονα αὐτῶν ἐξελεύσονται; Latin: Absorbens volucrem) is a creature mentioned in the Book of Isaiah in the Tanakh. The term translated as "fiery serpent", saraph, appears elsewhere in the Book of Isaiah to signify the seraphim, the singular form of which is also saraph.
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New English Translation (NET) Fiery Serpents - Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along.
- Bible Gateway passage: Numbers 21:8-32:19 - King James Version
Numbers 21:8-32:19. King James Version. 8 And the Lord said...
- Bible Gateway passage: Numbers 21:6-9 - New King James Version
Numbers 21:6-9. New King James Version. 6 So the Lord sent...
- Bible Gateway passage: Numbers 21:8-32:19 - King James Version
Numbers 21:6. Verse Concepts. The Lord sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
The word appears to denote a particular kind of serpent, as in the following verse. Some think that they were so called because of the bright fiery red upon their heads; others because of the blazing sunbeams on their scales; and others because of their inflammatory and poisonous bite.
Numbers 21:8-32:19. King James Version. 8 And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Numbers 21:6-9. New King James Version. 6 So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you; pray to the Lord that He take away the serpents from us.”.
Then the LORD told him, “Make a replica of a poisonous snake and attach it to a pole. All who are bitten will live if they simply look at it!”. English Standard Version. And the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”.
The Book of Isaiah expounds on the description of these fiery serpents as "flying saraphs" (YLT), or "flying dragons", [24] in the land of trouble and anguish (Isaiah 30:6). Isaiah indicates that these saraphs are comparable to vipers, (YLT) worse than ordinary serpents (Isaiah 14:29). [26]
