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Lexicon :: Strong's H8577 - tannîn

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תַּנִּין
Transliteration
tannîn
Pronunciation
tan-neen'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Intensive from the same as תַּן (H8565)
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TWOT Reference: 2528b

Strong’s Definitions

תַּנִּין tannîyn, tan-neen'; or תַּנִּים tannîym; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal:—dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's H8577 in the following manner: dragon (21x), serpent (3x), whale (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's H8577 in the following manner: dragon (21x), serpent (3x), whale (3x).

  1. dragon, serpent, sea monster

    1. dragon or dinosaur

    2. sea or river monster

    3. serpent, venomous snake

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תַּנִּין tannîyn, tan-neen'; or תַּנִּים tannîym; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565; a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal:—dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
STRONGS H8577: Abbreviations
† תַּנִּין (erroneous תַּנִּים) noun masculineEzekiel 29:3 serpent, dragon, sea-monster (Late Hebrew id. (rare); Arabic bdb107207, loan-word from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא, bdb107208 Frä123; Ethiopic bdb107209); — absolute ת׳ Exodus 7:9 +, יִ֯ם Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2 (by confusion with plural of [תַּן]); plural תַּנִּינַם Genesis 1:21, etc.; —
1. serpent, Deuteronomy 32:33 (venomous), Psalm 91:13 (|| פֶּתֶן), Exodus 7:9, 10, 12 (P).
2. dragon, as devourer (simile) Jeremiah 51:34; עֵין הַתּ׳ Nehemiah 2:13, near Jerusalem.
3. sea- (or river-) monster, Genesis 1:21 (P); figurative Job 7:12; Psalm 74:13 (i.e. Egyptains), Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 51:9 (|| רַהַב, mythological personification of chaos); in summons to praise י׳ Psalm 148:7 (|| תְּהֹמוֺת). — See CheEncy. Bib. DRAGON GunkSeh-pfung 69 ff. BartonJAOS xv. 1 (1891). 23 f.; personified of water-spout RSSemitic i. 161; 2nd ed. 176; compare Greek fish-name θύννος LewyFremdw. 15.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:21; 1:21

Exodus

7:9; 7:9; 7:10; 7:12

Deuteronomy

32:33

Nehemiah

2:13

Job

7:12

Psalms

74:13; 91:13; 148:7

Isaiah

27:1; 51:9

Jeremiah

51:34

Ezekiel

29:3; 29:3; 32:2

H8577

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8577 matches the Hebrew תַּנִּין (tannîn),
which occurs 26 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:21 - God created the great sea creatures and every living and moving thing with which the water swarmed, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:9 - "When Pharaoh says to you, 'Do a miracle,' and you say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,' it will become a snake."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10 - When Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh, they did so, just as the LORD had commanded them - Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a snake.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12 - Each man threw down his staff, and the staffs became snakes. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:33 - Their wine is snakes' poison, the deadly venom of cobras.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - You destroyed the sea by your strength; you shattered the heads of the sea monster in the water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13 - You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea creatures and all you ocean depths,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 - Wild dogs will yip in her ruined fortresses, jackals will yelp in the once-splendid palaces. Her time is almost up, her days will not be prolonged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 - At that time the LORD will punish with his destructive, great, and powerful sword Leviathan the fast-moving serpent, Leviathan the squirming serpent; he will kill the sea monster.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The wild animals of the desert honor me, the jackals and ostriches, because I put water in the desert and streams in the wilderness, to quench the thirst of my chosen people,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the LORD! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - The LORD said, "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. I will destroy the towns of Judah so that no one will be able to live in them."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 - Wild donkeys stand on the hilltops and pant for breath like jackals. Their eyes are strained looking for food, because there is none to be found."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - "Hazor will become a permanent wasteland, a place where only jackals live. No one will live there. No human being will settle in it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - "King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon devoured me and drove my people out. Like a monster from the deep he swallowed me. He filled his belly with my riches. He made me an empty dish. He completely cleaned me out."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Tell them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: "'Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster lying in the midst of its waterways, who has said, "My Nile is my own, I made it for myself."

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.
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