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# פֶּתֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6620

**serpent** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

serpent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6620/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫תֶן: n.m. cobra [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6620/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 58:5 a venomous serpent, perhaps cobra (פתן Ecclus 39:30; Aramaic פִּתְנָא, ܦܰܬܳܢܳܐ, whence perhaps Arabic بَثَنٌ );—only poet.: pl. רֹאשׁ פְּתָנִים Dt 32:33 (‖ חֲמַת תַּנִּינִם), Jb 20:16, מְרוֹרַת פ׳ v 14; sg. פֶּ֫תֶן ψ 91:13 (‖ תַּנִּין), פ׳ חֵרֵשׁ 58:5, חֻר פָּ֑תֶן Is 11:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of cobras (3); a cobra (2); of a cobra (1).

## In the verses

[Job 20:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.16/#tree)

רֹאשׁ־פְּתָנִ֥ים יִינָ֑ק תַּֽ֝הַרְגֵ֗הוּ לְשׁ֣וֹן אֶפְעֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].poison of.cobras he.sucks it slays.him \[the\].tongue of.a.viper

*JPS 1917:* He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall slay him.

[Deuteronomy 32:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.33/#tree)

חֲמַ֥ת תַּנִּינִ֖ם יֵינָ֑ם וְרֹ֥אשׁ פְּתָנִ֖ים אַכְזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[is.the\].venom of.serpents wine their and.\[the\] poison of.cobras cruel

*JPS 1917:* Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6620.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6620/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).