Nachash

NOTES:

Heiser, Michael S.. The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible. Lexham Press. Kindle Edition.

T he pivotal character of Genesis 3 is the serpent. The Hebrew word translated serpent is nachash. The word is both plain and elastic.

T he divine being in the garden who rebelled against Yahweh’s desire to have humans rule an Edenic world is never cast in human form.1 Unlike the sons of God in Genesis 6:1–4 who are cast as assuming human flesh and capable of cohabitation, the divine rebel of Eden does not appear to Eve that way.2 Consequently, the idea of a “seed” or offspring extending from the nachash would not have been literal for the biblical writer. Instead, the notion is metaphorical or spiritual. And this is precisely what we see when the phrase occurs elsewhere in the Bible. The metaphor is perhaps most clear in the New Testament, when Jesus himself referred to the Pharisees as serpents (Matt 23:33) who were “of [their] father the devil” (John 8:44; cf. Rev 12:6).

e arlier, the divine serpent (nachash, another word so translated) became lord of the dead after his rebellion in Eden. In effect, Bashan was considered the location of (to borrow a New Testament phrase) “the gates of hell.”

14 Mapped Links

↑ Shedim
→ Anu
→ Ashtaroth
→ Baal
→ Bull
→ Dragon
→ Ereshkigal
→ Eros
→ Marduk
→ Molech
→ Ninshubar
→ Possessed
→ Tammuz

↓ Nachash

17 Unlinked Mentions

• BP: Heaven and Earth Class
• serpent.
  • 12“He quieted the sea with His power, And by His understanding He shattered Rahab. 13“By His breath the heavens are cleared; His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent.
• BP: Noah to Abraham Class
• When understood as the introduction to the Torah and to the TaNaK as a whole, Genesis 1-3 intentionally foreshadows Israel’s failure to keep the Sinai covenant as well as their exile from the promised land in order to point the reader to a future work of God in the “last days.” Adam’s failure to “conquer” (Gen. 1:28) the sedi tious inhabitant of the land (the serpent), his temptation and violation of the
• Genesis 3
• The Serpent
  • The Serpent
• And the serpent // nachash //
  - And the serpent saith
  - // Gadreel //
• unto the serpent,
  - he doth bruise thee // serpent // -- the head,
  - Observation: He didn’t ask the serpent a question like he did Adam and Eve?
  - The serpent tried to usurp the rulership of the humans. The serpant is cursesd.
  • The Woman
• unto the serpent,
  - The serpent hath
  - unto the serpent,
• Genesis 49

{ #Dan}
is a serpent by the way, An adder by the path, Which is biting the horse's heels, And its rider falleth backward.
- TLV

• 17 Let Dan be a serpent beside a road,
• Lucifer
• There is a main adversary, usually referred to as dragon or serpent. And many satans/adversaries and stars (aka lucifers). Revelation 12:4 The DRAGON sweeps a third.
• Matthew 7
• Verses 6-

{ #and}
if a fish he may ask -- a serpent will he present to him?