Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6620
פֶּתֶן
pethenpeh'-then
cobra
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6620is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6620
an asp (from its contortions)
The King James renders it: adder.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
pethen is rendered "cobra". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Deuteronomy 32:33פְּתָנִ֖ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cobras3
- a cobra2
- and a cobra1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וָפֶ֣תֶן1
- פֶ֥תֶן1
- פָּ֑תֶן1
- פְּתָנִ֖ים1
- פְּתָנִ֣ים1
- פְּתָנִ֥ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- פְּתָנִ֖יםpetanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cobras
Job
two uses
Psalms
two uses
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- פֶ֥תֶןfetennoun · masculine singulartagged: a cobra
You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- וָפֶ֣תֶןvafetenconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a cobra
Isaiah
one use
The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
- פָּ֑תֶןpatennoun · masculine singulartagged: a cobra
The letters
Gematria 530· 1,180 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.