. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . erpents, other largeanimals, such as the crocodile, there are several wordswhich probably signify particular kinds. Three ofthese occur only once. Jlkshub, Psal. cxl. 3, Adderspoison is under their lips. Shephiphon, Gen. , Jin adder (arrowsnake, marginal reading,) inthe path. Tsepha, Isa. xiv. 29, a cockatrice. Tsiphoni, Isa. xi. 8; lix. 5; Jer. viii. 17, is alsotranslat
. Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures . erpents, other largeanimals, such as the crocodile, there are several wordswhich probably signify particular kinds. Three ofthese occur only once. Jlkshub, Psal. cxl. 3, Adderspoison is under their lips. Shephiphon, Gen. , Jin adder (arrowsnake, marginal reading,) inthe path. Tsepha, Isa. xiv. 29, a cockatrice. Tsiphoni, Isa. xi. 8; lix. 5; Jer. viii. 17, is alsotranslated cockatrice; in Prov. xxiii. 32, an adder,but in the margin cockatrice. Epheh occurs in Job xx. 16; Isa. xxx. 6, and lix. 5;and is translated, in all these passages, viper, thoughin the Septnagint each has a separate meaning, cor-responding to the English words serpent, asp, andbasilisk. The word pethen is found in Psal. lviii. 4; Isa. ; Psal. xci. 13; Deut. xxxii. 33; Job xx. 14,16. Inall these it is translated asp, excepting Psal. lviii. 4,adder, (but asp in the margin.) Saraph, jfiery serpent, occurs in Numb. xxi. 6-8;Deut. viii. 15; Isa. xiv. 29; xxx. 6. The shephiphon, adder, in Gen. xlix. 17, is gen-. THE CERASTES. erally supposed to be the cerastes, or horned snake, socalled from a small prominence, or horn, above each SERPENTS. 121 eye. It is nearly two feet long, and of a greyish-redcolour, which renders it difficult to distinguish it fromthe sand in which it lurks. Its congenial abode is thesandy desert, beneath a burning sun; it is common inEgypt, Arabia, and Syria. It moves with great ra-pidity, says Mr. Bruce, and in all directions, for-ward, backward, and sideways. When inclined tosurprise any person who is too far from it, it creepswith its side towards the person and its head turned,till, judging the distance, it turns round, springs, andfastens on the part next to it. Its bite is very ven-omous. The pethen, (asp,) is probably the aspic of antiqui-ty, and
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