Musa عليه السلام Staff Snake
*Word used is كانها Al-A’raf – 7:117 Arabic وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنۡ أَلۡقِ عَصَاكَۖ فَإِذَا هِىَ تَلۡقَفُ مَا يَأۡفِكُونَ This ayah as well. The snake of Musa عليه السلام ‘consumed what they were falsifying’. So it would lead us to believe that what he did was disprove the magicians. They were probably saying look we have powers from the gods we can do magic! But Musa عليه السلام exposed their fake magic by showing it was just an illusion and that even he could do the same thing but at an even higher level from God taught knowledge. So can we really say it turned into an actual snake?