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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(viper). The hooded venomous serpent known as the African cobra. Adder (Psa. 58:4; 91:13⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; (Psalm 58:4)
¹³Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. (Psalm 91:13)), answers the description of asp (Deut. 32:33³³Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:33); Job 20:14-16¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. ¹⁵He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. ¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. (Job 20:14‑16); Isa. 11:8⁸And 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); Rom. 3:13¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: (Romans 3:13)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The word is pethen: it has been identified with the naja haje, a snake that has the power of expelling its deadly poison to some distance, which has caused the Dutch colonists at the Cape to call them the spitting snake. Its “cruel venom” is used symbolically to describe the wine of the wicked (Deut. 32:33³³Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:33); compare. Rom. 3:13¹³Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: (Romans 3:13)), and the inward misery of those who are secretly wicked (Job 20:14,16¹⁴Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. (Job 20:14)
¹⁶He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. (Job 20:16)). In the millennium a child will play harmlessly at its hole (Isa. 11:8⁸And 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)).

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Egyptian Cobra – Naja Haje

Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:

Number:

785 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Greek:

ἀσπίς

Transliteration:

aspis

Phonic:

as-pece’

Meaning:

of uncertain derivation; a buckler (or round shield); used of a serpent (as coiling itself), probably the "asp"

KJV Usage:

asp