H6620 פֶּתֶן
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 6 KJV occurrences
פֶּתֶן
pethen · peh'-then
Definition
an asp (from its contortions)
KJV Renderings
adder.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to twist;
KJV Verses (6)
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Psalms 91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Isaiah 11:8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.