{"query": "Easton: Adder", "count": 6, "results": [{"id": "card_n_954ec11a74e6", "title": "Easton: Adder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Ps. 140:3; Rom. 3:13, “asp”) is the rendering of, (1.) Akshub (“coiling” or “lying in wait”), properly an asp or viper, found only in this passage. (2.) Pethen (“twisting”), a viper or venomous serpe"}, {"id": "card_c_911ffcdd12bb", "title": "Easton: Adder references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_d2679f1c9081", "title": "Easton: Asp", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. pethen), Deut. 32:33; Job 20:14, 16; Isa. 11:8. It was probably the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), which was very poisonous (Rom. 3:13; Gr. aspis). The Egyptians worshipped it as the uraeus, and it"}, {"id": "card_n_74a7b23a004d", "title": "Easton: Viper", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In Job 20:16, Isa. 30:6; 59:5, the Heb. word eph’eh is thus rendered. The Hebrew word, however, probably denotes a species of poisonous serpents known by the Arabic name of ‘el ephah. Tristram has ide"}, {"id": "card_n_a0869faf2a81", "title": "Easton: Cockatrice", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The mediaeval name (a corruption of “crocodile”) of a fabulous serpent supposed to be produced from a cock’s egg. It is generally supposed to denote the cerastes, or “horned viper,” a very poisonous s"}, {"id": "card_n_361dc3c83c89", "title": "Easton: Serpent", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. nahash; Gr. ophis), frequently noticed in Scripture. More than forty species are found in Syria and Arabia. The poisonous character of the serpent is alluded to in Jacob’s blessing on Dan (Gen. "}]}