H6620: פֶּתֶן
pethen · pronounced peh'-then · “cobra”
Definition
an asp (from its contortions)
KJV translates it as: adder.
Word origin: from an unused root meaning to twist;
Extended definition
1a) perhaps the cobra, adder, or viper
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H6620 is translated
- cobras ×3
- a cobra ×3
Bible verses with H6620 (pethen)
Pethen appears in 6 verses.
- Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:16
He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Psalms 91:13
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Isaiah 11:8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.