(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 serpent identified with the 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 Daboia xanthina, the largest and most dangerous of the vipers of Palestine (4 ) Shephiphon ("creeping"), occurring only in Gen 49: 17, the small speckled venomous snake, the "horned snake," or cerastes Dan is compared to this serpent, which springs from its hiding-place on the passer-by
In Europe and Asia, an adder is a small poisonous snake that has a black pattern on its back. In North America, a number of different poisonous and non-poisonous snakes are called adders. = viper. a type of poisonous snake (a nadder, mistaken for an adder; nadder (11-17 centuries) from nAddre). Any of several venomous snakes of the viper family (Viperidae) and the death adder, a viperlike elapid. Vipers include the common adder, puff adders, and night adders. Adders occur in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. They range in length from 18 in. to 5 ft (45 cm to 1.5 m). The puff adder of Africa and the death adder of Australia and the nearby islands are particularly venomous, with a bite potentially lethal to humans. The name is also used for other snakes (e.g., the hognose snake)
{i} common European viper; any of a number of venomous or nonvenomous snakes resembling the viper; person or thing that adds; electronic circuit that sums two numbers in a computer (Computers)
A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus Clotho