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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(crocodile like.) The basilisk (
Jer. 8:17
17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 8:17)
;
Isa. 11:8; 14:29; 59:5
8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. (Isaiah 11:8)
29
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. (Isaiah 14:29)
5
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Isaiah 59:5)
); in all which some species of hissing, venomous
serpent
is meant.
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
What
reptile is alluded to is not definitely known:
the
Hebrew
words
tsepha
(
Isa. 14:29
29
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. (Isaiah 14:29)
only
) and
tsiphoni
are from “to hiss.” The texts in which
they
occur refer to its dangerous character. Its deadly sting will be changed in the
millennium
, when a
little
child
shall
put
its hand on its den. Of
Israel
it is said figuratively “they hatch cockatrice’ eggs” (
Isa. 11:8; 59:5
8
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. (Isaiah 11:8)
5
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. (Isaiah 59:5)
;
Jer. 8:17
17
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. (Jeremiah 8:17)
). The latter word is translated “
adder
” in
Proverbs 23:32
32
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. (Proverbs 23:32)
.
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