* poison.
# 140:3; Ec 10:11; Ro 3:13; Jas 3:8|
* like. Heb. according to the likeness of. serpent.
# Mt 3:7; 23:33|
* the deaf.
# Jer 8:17|
* adder or asp.
{Pethen,} is no doubt the {boeten} of the Arabians, which M.
Forskal describes as spotted with black and white, about one
foot in length, nearly half an inch thick, oviparous, and its
bite almost instant death. It is the aspic of the ancients,
and is so called the literati of Cyprus, though the common
people call it [kouphe,] deaf.
# Job 20:14,16; Isa 11:8|
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