Dragon
δράκωνStrong’s G1404drakōn
Appears in 12 verses of the New Testament
In short
Drakōn is the Greek word usually translated “dragon”. It appears in 12 verses of the New Testament.
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.”
Meaning
Usually translated “dragon”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- dragon 11
- a dragon 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 12
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Revelation 12:4And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
- Revelation 12:7And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
- Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
- Revelation 12:13And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
- Revelation 12:16And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
- Revelation 12:17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Greek dictionary
δράκων drakōn · dragon
δράκων, -ο τος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for תַּנִּין ;] a dragon, a mythical monster: figuratively, of Satan, Rev.12:3-17 13:2, 4 13:11 16:13 20:2.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dragon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRAGON, noun
[Latin, Gr., G.]
- A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.
- A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent.
- A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon
- A constellation of the northern hemisphere. [See Draco.]
All definitions and other forms of “dragon”
DRAGON, noun
A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.