Serpents in the Bible his heel" (KJV). Following the imagery of chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation, Bernard of Clairvaux had called Mary the "conqueror of dragons", and she was long to be shown crushing a snake underfoot, also a reference to her title as the "New Eve". Serpents in the Bible Serpents ( "nāḥāš") are referred to in both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The symbol of a serpent or snake played important roles in religious and cultural life of ancient Egypt, Canaan, Mesopotamia and Greece. The serpent was a symbol of evil power and chaos from the underworld as
Names and titles of God in the New Testament at . It is represented in Greek as "Ἁλληλουιά" wherein "ιά" (Hebrew יה) is an abbreviated form of the tetragrammaton. Most English Bibles, including those which contain "Yahweh" (such as the Jerusalem Bible) or a related form in the Old Testament, do not use the same form in the New Testament because it does not appear in the available Greek New Testament manuscripts. However, of over English translations of the Bible have been written, 23 use the forms "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" in the New Testament. Sacred Name Bibles are editions of the Bible that "consistently use Hebraic forms of God's