Strong's Hebrew · H6620
פֶּתֶן
pethen · peh'-then
Definitionan asp (from its contortions)
Derivationfrom an unused root meaning to twist;
KJV usageadder.
Occurrences6 in the KJV · 6 verses
פֶּתֶן in Scripture
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' s den.