Asp @ (Heb. pethen), Deuteronomy:32:33; Job:20:14-16; Isaiah:11:8. It was probably the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), which was very poisonous Romans:3:13; Gr. aspis). The Egyptians worshipped it as the _uraeus_, and it was found in the desert and in the fields. The peace and security of Messiah's reign is represented by the figure of a child playing on the hole of the asp. (See ADDER
