Dragon
תַּנָּהStrong’s H8577tannah (tan-nah)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tannah is the Hebrew word usually translated “jackals”, “serpent” and “serpents”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
Meaning
- Habitations, jackals, (TWOT) dragon, (TWOT) sea monstermeaning uncertain
- § spring, fountain
- Dragon, serpent, sea monsterdragon or dinosaur · sea or river monster · serpent, venomous snake
How it's translated
- jackals 9
- a serpent 2
- serpents 2
- sea monster 2
- the sea monster 2
- like jackals 2
- the sea monsters 1
- dragons 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 6
- Jeremiah 6
- Psalms 4
- Exodus 3
- Job 2
- Genesis 1
12 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 7:9When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
- Exodus 7:10And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
- Exodus 7:12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Nehemiah 2:13And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
- Job 7:12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
Hebrew dictionary
תַּנָּה tannah · dragon
1) habitations, jackals, (TWOT) dragon, (TWOT) sea monster 1a) meaning uncertain
עַ֫יִן ayin · Fountain of
§ spring, fountain
תַּנִּין tannin · serpent
1) dragon, serpent, sea monster 1a) dragon or dinosaur 1b) sea or river monster 1c) serpent, venomous snake Also means: tan.nin (תַּנִּין ": monster" H8577N)
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.