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If that is what you think of the http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com why do you quote it regarding hell?Another member posted a 150+ year old "Encyclopedia of Mythology" as a credible source for the meaning of some words in both testaments. I was being facetious. If that mythology book was a valid source for the meaning of Biblical words then we might as well read about phoenixes, satyrs, etc. which are all in that book, as well. Of course the other member was cherry picking trying to find something, anything, somewhere, by somebody as long as it seemed to support his false beliefs.
Here it is from your own Jewish Encyclopedia that you love to quote about hell and see how uninformed your argument is.
COCKATRICE See Basilisk.
BASILISK ...The translation in the Revised Version of the Hebrew "ẓefa'" and "ẓif'oni" (Isa. xi. 8, xiv. 29, lix. 5; Jer. viii. 17; Prov. xxiii. 32), for which the Authorized Version has "cockatrice."
The Septuagint... SERPENT ...et al.), perhaps identical with the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje), which is found in southern Palestine, and is frequently kept by snake-charmers; (3) "ẓefa'" (A. V. "cockatrice," R. V. "basilisk ...LXX. "asp"; Isa. xiv. 29);
(4) "ẓif'oni" (adder, basilisk, cockatrice; Isa. xi. 8, lix. 5, et al.), perhaps the large viper (Duboia xanthina); it is identified also, by some, with the cat-snake (EGGS ...Biblical Data: The Old Testament refers to eggs of birds (Deut. xxii. 6) and of vipers (Isa. lix. 5, A. V., "cockatrice"), and to the well-known fact that...
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The translation in the Revised Version of the Hebrew "ẓefa'" and "ẓif'oni" (Isa. xi. 8, xiv. 29, lix. 5; Jer. viii. 17; Prov. xxiii. 32), for which the Authorized Version has "cockatrice."
The Septuagint uses the word βασιλίσκον in Isa. lix. 5 for "ef'eh," and in Ps. xci. 13 for "peten." In all these places some variety of serpent is evidently meant, but the ancient versions do not indicate which.
The rendering "basilisk"so also Jerome and the Syriac Versionis correct in so far as that the Hebrew word likewise appears to designate some fabulous creature, though it is not known which was the particular kind of serpent that suggested the fanciful notions of the ancients. According to some, the Hebrew "ẓefa'" is the same species as "shefifon" (Gen. xlix. 17), the horned adder or cerastes, a very poisonous viper found in Arabia, in the Sinaitic peninsula.
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