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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פֶּ֫תֶן: n.m. cobra tree →

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 · 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 · 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

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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).

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