פֶּתֶן
peten · cobra, asp
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6620 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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peten (פֶּתֶן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cobra, asp”.
A viper, a poisonous snake.
How to say it
pe·ten
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A snake with deadly poison, feared for its bite.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- vipers ×3
- viper ×2
- cobra ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:33
The venom of serpents is their wine, and the cruel poison of vipers.
- Job 20:14
his bread in his bowels is turned; the gall of vipers it is within him.
- Job 20:16
The poison of vipers he will suck; the tongue of the adder will kill him.
- Psalms 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
- Psalms 91:13
On the fierce lion and the viper you will tread; you will trample the young lion and the serpent.
- Isaiah 11:8
And the nursing child will play over the hole of the viper, and over the den of the cobra the weaned child will stretch out his hand.