Dragon
תַּןStrong’s H8565tan
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tan is the Hebrew word usually translated “like sea monster”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.”
Meaning
- Dragon, maybe the extinct dinosaur the plesiosaurus, whale
How it's translated
- like sea monster 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תַּן tan · dragon
dragon, maybe the extinct dinosaur the plesiosaurus, whale
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.