צֶ֫פַע

In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.

They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.