Strong’s H6620 · Hebrew
פֶּתֶן
pethen · peh'-then
Origin from an unused root meaning to twist;
Meaning an asp (from its contortions)
In the King James Version adder.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.