And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp - "play," literally, delight himself in sport.
Cockatrice - the Hebrew means a kind of adder, more venomous than the asp. Bochart supposes the basilisk to be meant, which was thought to poison even with its breath. х Tsip`owniy (H6848), basiliskos, regulus, from traapa`, to protrude, as serpents do in striking their prey, and to hiss.] It appears from this passage it was subterranean in habits, and from Isaiah 59:5 that it was oviparous, and from Isaiah 14:29 that it was not identical with the nachash (H5175).