Strong's G785 ἀσπίς (aspis)

Their wine is the rage of serpents, And the incurable rage of asps.

And greaves of brass were upon his legs, and a brazen target was between his shoulders.

And David said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with spear, and with shield; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord God of hosts of the army of Israel, which thou hast defied

The sons of Reuben and Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of mighty men, bearing shields and sword, and bending the bow, and skilled in war, were forty and four thousand and seven hundred and sixty, going forth to battle.

And three hundred bucklers of beaten gold: the weight of three hundred gold shekels went to one buckler: and the king placed them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

And he has run against him with insolence, On the thickness of the back of his shield.

Yet he shall not at all be able to help himself; The gall of an asp is in his belly.

His innards are as brazen plates, And the texture of his skin as an emery stone.

They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Their venom is like that of a serpent; As that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

Thou shalt tread on the asp and basilisk: And thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon.

They have sharpened their tongue as the tongue of a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Pause.

And an infant shall put his hand on the holes of asps, and on the nest of young asps.

Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents.

The vision of the quadrupeds in the desert. In affliction and distress, where are the lion and lion’s whelp, thence come also asps, and the young of flying asps, there shall they be who bore their wealth on asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them.

They have hatched asps’ eggs, and weave a spider’s web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

Take up arms and spears, and draw nigh to battle;

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

For, behold, the Assyrians are multiplied in their power; they are exalted with horse and man; they glory in the strength of their footmen; they trust in shield, and spear, and bow, and sling; and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles: the Lord is thy name.

Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.

After this Simon sent Numenius to Rome with a great shield of gold of a thousand pound weight, to confirm the league with them.

and they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.

It seemed also good to us to receive the shield of them.

and troops of horsemen in array, encountering and running one against another, with shaking of shields, and multitude of pikes, and drawing of swords, and casting of darts, and glittering of golden ornaments, and harness of all sorts.

Thus he armed every one of them, not so much with defense of shields and spears, as with comfortable and good words: and beside that, he told them a dream worthy to be believed, as if it had been so indeed, which did not a little rejoice them.

He shall take holiness for an invincible shield.

It shall fight for thee against thine enemies Better than a mighty shield and strong spear.

There is a companion, which helpeth his friend for the belly, And taketh up the buckler against the enemy.

And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all