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his a “wretched interpretation”. It means rather “eager covetousness, self-conceited, envious, egoistic, which indeed winds about in the heart of man and envelops it in its coils, but which has nothing to do with a serpent, other than a name sometimes given metapho…‘serpens callidior’ as found in Saint Jerome’s Vulgate). He calls this a “wretched interpretation”. It means rather “eager covetousness, self-conceited, envious, egoistic, which indeed winds about in the heart of man and envelops it in its coils, but which has nothing to do with a serpent, other than a name sometimes given metaphorically”.
What Do the First Three Chapters of Genesis Really Mean? — Chapter 3, That Mysterious Serpent
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Graham Pemberton
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Nachash:
"to practice divination, divine, observe signs, learn by experience, diligently observe, practice fortunetelling, take as an omen"; "copper, bronze"; "image (of serpent)"; "to whisper. Pi. - נִיחֵשׁ to divine, to make action dependent on an omen, to augur"
https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.3.4?lang=bi&lookup=נָּחָ֖שׁ&with=Lexicon&lang2=en
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