. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Tosicoaof Egypt, {Ec7tis arenicola.) from the LXX. in Rom. iii. 13. The poison of ven-omous serpents is often employed by the sacredwriters figuratively to express the evil tempers ofungodly men. The Jews were probably acquaintedwith only five or six species of poisonous serpents(Serpent); and as Pelhen and ShepMpMn wereprobably the Egyptian Cobra and the Horned Viper,Achshub may be the Toxicoa of Egypt and north-ern Africa, called by naturalists the Echis any rate the Jews were probably acquainted withthis species, which is common in Eg
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Tosicoaof Egypt, {Ec7tis arenicola.) from the LXX. in Rom. iii. 13. The poison of ven-omous serpents is often employed by the sacredwriters figuratively to express the evil tempers ofungodly men. The Jews were probably acquaintedwith only five or six species of poisonous serpents(Serpent); and as Pelhen and ShepMpMn wereprobably the Egyptian Cobra and the Horned Viper,Achshub may be the Toxicoa of Egypt and north-ern Africa, called by naturalists the Echis any rate the Jews were probably acquainted withthis species, which is common in Egypt and probablyin Syria.—2. Pethen. (Asp.)—3. Tsepha\ or TsipK-oni, occurs five times in the Hebrew Bible. In 32, it is translated adder (marg. cockatrice),and in the text (see above) of Is. xi. 8, xiv. 29, ; Jer. viii. 1*7, it is translated cockatrice. FromJeremiah we learn that it was of a hostile nature,and from the parallelism of Is. xi. 8, it appears that. Horned Cerastes {Cerastes ffasselquislii).—(.From specimen in Brit. Mua.) it was considered even more dreadful than thePelhen. Bochart makes TsipKoni = the Basiliskof the Greeks (the representative of Pethen [Asp]used by the LXX. in Ps. xci. 13), which was sup- 14 ADD ADO posed to destroy life, burn up grass, and breakstones by the pernicious influence of its the Tsiptioni may be the Algerine adder(Clo/ho rnaurilanica), but this is mere conjecture.—4. Shcphiphon occurs only in Gen. xlix. 17: Danshall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path,that biteth the horse-heels, so that Jiis rider shallfall backward. The habit of lurking in the sandand biting at the horses heels, here alluded to, suitsthe character of a well-known species of venomoussnake, and helps us to identify it with the celebratedhorned viper, the asp of Cleopatra (Cerastes Hassel-quislii), which is found abundantly in the dry sandydeserts of Egypt, Syria, and Arabia. The Cerastesis extremely veno
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