*bṯn [#g8adbd75] Name, masculine, "serpent, dragon". -Hebrew '''ptn''', '''The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament''', vols. I-V((Revised Enlglish Translation of L. Koehler – W. Baumgartner, '''Hebräisches und aramäisches Lexikon zum Alten Testament''', Leiden 1967-1990 by M.E.J. Richardson.)), Leiden 1994 ff., 990;~ Aramaic '''ptn''', '''ptnʔ''', M. Jastrow, '''Dictionary of the Targumin, the Talmud Babli ...''', I-II, New York, NY 1950, 1255;~ Syriac '''patnō''', C. Brockelmann, '''Lexicon Syriacum''', Hildesheim 1966, 618;~ Ebra cf. /baṯmum/ in MAḪ.MUŠ = '''ba-ša-mu-um''', P. Fronzaroli, Eblaic Lexicon, '''Quaderni di Semitistica''' 13, 1984, 117-157, 138;~ '''ba-ša-nu-um''', Extracts from the Vocabulary of Ebla, in '''Materiali epigrafici di Ebla''' 4, Naples, 0031;~ Akkad '''bašmu''', W. von Soden, '''Akkadisches Handwörterbuch''', I-III, Wiesbaden 1965-1981, 112; The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago/Glückstadt 1956ff., B 351f.; -cf. Sasson, L. R. Fisher etc,. eds., '''Ras Shamra Parallels. The Texts from Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible''', I-III, Rome, 1972-81, I 401f.: Hebrew '''bšn'''?;~ cf. Day GCD 113ff. ¶ parallel: '''lsm''', '''nḥš''', '''rum''', '''[[šlyṭ]]'''.~ ¶ Forms: singular '''bṯn'''; plural '''bṯnn''', f. '''bṯnt'''. Serpent, dragon: '''bṯn brḥ (...) bṯn ʕqltn''' the fleeing serpent (...), the winding serpent, 1.5 I 1-2 and parallel. (//'''šryṭ''');~ '''ynṯkn k bṯnm''' they bit like serpents, 1.6 VI 19 (// '''lumm''', '''lsmm''');~ '''km bṯn yqr''' like a serpent he hissed, 1.17 VI 14;~ '''lbh km bṯn''' her heart like (that) of a serpent, 1.19 VI 61;~ '''bṯnm uḫd bʕlm''' grasp the serpents, oh DN!, 1.82:6;~ .... Cf. in broken context, '''mm b bṯn'''[, 1.166:28. ---- Gregorio del Olmo Lete and Joaquín Sanmartín. 2004. '''A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition'''. Second Revised Edition. English Version Edited and Translated by Wilfred G.E. Watson. 2 vols. Leiden-Boston: Brill. Part 1, p. 252.