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Strong's #8577: tanniyn (pronounced tan-neen')

or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}; intensive from the same as 8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal:--dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tannı̂yn / tannı̂ym

1) dragon, serpent, sea monster

1a) dragon or dinosaur

1b) sea or river monster

1c) serpent, venomous snake

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: intensive from the same as H8565



Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

Genesis 1:21: "created great whales, and every living creature that moveth,"
Exodus 7:9: "it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent."
Exodus 7:10: "and before his servants, and it became a serpent."
Exodus 7:12: "every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up"
Deuteronomy 32:33: "Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps."
Nehemiah 2:13: "by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung"
Job 7:12: "Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over"
Job 30:29: "I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls."
Psalms 44:19: "Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death."
Psalms 74:13: "by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters."
Psalms 91:13: "the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet"
Psalms 148:7: "the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:"
Isaiah 13:22: "And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near"
Isaiah 27:1: "that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea."
Isaiah 51:9: "that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"
Jeremiah 9:11: "Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate,"
Jeremiah 10:22: "the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons."
Jeremiah 14:6: "the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no"
Jeremiah 49:33: "And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation forever: there shall no"
Jeremiah 51:34: "me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicacies,"
Jeremiah 51:37: "shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without"
Ezekiel 29:3: "king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which"
Ezekiel 32:2: "a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst"









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