'Serpent' in the Bible
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
The serpent said to the woman, "Surely you will not die,
So the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman replied, "The serpent tricked me, and I ate."
The Lord God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all the wild beasts and all the living creatures of the field! On your belly you will crawl and dust you will eat all the days of your life.
He eliminated the high places, smashed the sacred pillars to bits, and cut down the Asherah pole. He also demolished the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been offering incense to it; it was called Nehushtan.
By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
Their venom is like that of a snake, like a deaf serpent that does not hear,
You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.
Their tongues wound like a serpent; a viper's venom is behind their lips. (Selah)
A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.
At that time the Lord will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.
Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
So that huge dragon -- the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world -- was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.
But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of -- away from the presence of the serpent -- for a time, times, and half a time.
Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,
He seized the dragon -- the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan -- and tied him up for a thousand years.