# פֶּתֶן (peten)

Israeli respelling: pe-ten. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6620. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

an asp (from its contortions)

King James renderings: adder.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/peten-h6620

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 32:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/33) — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- [Job 20:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/14) — Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- [Job 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/16) — He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- [Psalms 58:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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’ den.