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(Ps. 140:3; Rom. 3:13, "[[Text:EBD:Asp (EBD)|asp]]") is the rendering of, (1.) Akshub ("coiling" or "lying in wait"), properly an asp or [[Text:EBD:Viper (EBD)|viper]], found only in this passage. (2.) Pethen ("twisting"), a viper or venomous [[Text:EBD:Serpent (EBD)|serpent]] identified with the cobra ([[Text:EBD:wikipedia:Egyptian cobra|Naja haje]]) (Ps. 58:4; 91:13); elsewhere "asp." (3.) Tziphoni ("hissing") (Prov. 23:32); elsewhere rendered "cockatrice," Isa. 11:8; 14:29; 59:5; Jer. 8:17, as it is here in the margin of the Authorized Version. The Revised Version has "basilisk." This may have been the yellow viper, the [[wikipedia:Vipera xanthinia|Daboia xanthina]], the largest and most dangerous of the vipers of [[Palestine (EBD)|Palestine]]. (4.) Shephiphon ("creeping"), occurring only in Gen. 49:17, the small speckled venomous snake, the "horned snake," or cerastes. [[Text:EBD:Dan (EBD)|Dan]] is compared to this serpent, which springs from its hiding-place on the passer-by.