Peten פֶּ֫תֶן
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| פֶּ֫תֶן | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | peten |
| Strong's number | H6620 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | cobra |
| Occurrences | 6 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | Job (2) |
Peten (Hebrew פֶּ֫תֶן, Strong's H6620) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “cobra”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) a snake, venomous serpent
1a) perhaps the cobra, adder, or viper
1a) perhaps the cobra, adder, or viper
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | asps (3), adder (2), asp (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | cobras (3), cobra (2), cobra's (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Peten, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Job
- Job 20:14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
Psalms
- Psalm 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- Psalm 91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
Isaiah
- 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.The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).