Dragon
(1.) Heb. tannim, plural of tan. The name of some unknown
creature inhabiting desert places and ruins (Job
30:29; Ps.
44:19; Isa. 13:22; 34:13; 43:20; Jer. 10:22; Micah
1:8; Mal.
1:3); probably, as translated in the Revised
Version, the jackal
(q.v.).
(2.) Heb. tannin. Some great sea monster (Jer.
51:34). In Isa.
51:9 it may denote the cr...
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Tannin, tan. Tan in Jeremiah 14:6, "dragons" "snuffing up
the wind" is translated by Henderson jackals; rather the
great boas and python serpents are meant, which raise their
body vertically ten or twelve feet high, surveying the
neighborhood above the bushes, while with open jaws they
drink in the air. They were made types of the deluge and a...
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And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the
beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like
unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?...
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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and
the dragon shalt thou trample under feet....
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Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath
crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed
me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my
delicates, he hath cast me out....
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drag'-un (tannin, plural tannim, tannoth; drakon):
Tannin and the plural tanninim occur 14 t, and in English
Versions of the Bible are variously rendered "dragon,"
"whale," "serpent" or "sea-monster"; but Lam 4:3, the King
James Version "sea-monster," the King James Version margin"sea
calves," the Revised Version (British and American) "jackals...
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-A poisonous serpent
De 32:33
-A serpent or the desert
Ps 91:13; Isa 34:13; Jer 9:11; 51:37; Mal 1:3
-Of the sea
Ps 74:13; Isa 27:1
-A wolf
Mic 1:8
-Interpreted as whale, in
Ge 1:21; Job 7:12
-Serpent
Ex 7:9
-A term applied
To Pharaoh
Isa 51:9
To Satan
Re 20:2
-Symbolical
Eze 29:3; 32:2; Re 12; 13; 16:13...
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The translators of the Authorized Version, apparently
following the Vulgate, have rendered by the same word "dragon"
the two Hebrew words tan and tannin, which appear to be quite
distinct in meaning.
1. The former is used, always in the plural, in Job
30:29; Ps 44:19; Isa 34:13; 43:20; Jer 9:11 It is always
applied to some creatures inhabitin...
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Dragon, a word frequently found in the translations of the Bible as substitute, so it seems, for other names of animals that the translators were unable to identify. It stands indeed for several Hebrew names:
(1) thán (Job 30:29; Isaiah 34:13; 35:7; 43:20; Jeremiah 9:11; 10:22; 14:6; 49:33; 51:37; Micah 1:8; Malachi 1:3), unquestionably meaning a ...
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