Cobra
פֶּ֫תֶןStrong’s H6620peten (pe-ten)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Peten is the Hebrew word usually translated “cobras” and “cobra”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.”
Meaning
- A snake, venomous serpentperhaps the cobra, adder, or viper
How it's translated
- cobras 3
- a cobra 2
- and a cobra 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּ֫תֶן peten · cobra
1) a snake, venomous serpent 1a) perhaps the cobra, adder, or viper
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.