Strong H6620פֶּ֫תֶן

cobra

Transliteration
pethen
Pronunciation
peh'-then
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From an unused root meaning to twist; an asp (from its contortions): - adder.

Detailed definition

1) a snake, venomous serpent
1a) perhaps the cobra, adder, or viper

In the Bible

Strong H6620 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • asp4
  • adder2

First verses

  1. Deuteronomy 32:33
    Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
  2. Job 20:14
    Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
  3. Job 20:16
    He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
  4. Psalms 58:4
    Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
  5. Psalms 91:13
    Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
  6. 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.
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