she.phi.phon denotes the viper image in Dan’s comparison to a snake that strikes a horse’s heels.

The term occurs in a comparison portraying Dan as a viper by the path whose bite at a horse’s heels makes its rider fall backward in Genesis 49:17.

1. Viper in Dan’s path-side comparison · dominant

   In Genesis 49:17, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs in the comparison of Dan to a serpent in the way and a viper by the path. The APB renders the clause "a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward."

   Genesis 49:17

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Genesis 49:17, the APB presents the image as "a viper by the path"; Its precise English correspondence to the Hebrew noun cannot be isolated beyond this clause.