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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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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 - And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that it is good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:9 - 'When Pharaoh speaketh unto you, saying, Give for yourselves a wonder; then thou hast said unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast before Pharaoh -- it becometh a monster.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10 - And Moses goeth in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they do so as Jehovah hath commanded; and Aaron casteth his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it becometh a monster.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12 - and they cast down each his rod, and they become monsters, and the rod of Aaron swalloweth their rods;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:33 - The poison of dragons is their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - And I go out through the gate of the valley by night, and unto the front of the fountain of the dragon, and unto the gate of the dunghill, and I am measuring about the walls of Jerusalem, that are broken down, and its gates consumed with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - A sea-monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - Thou hast broken by Thy strength a sea-monster, Thou hast shivered Heads of dragons by the waters,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13 - On lion and asp thou treadest, Thou trampest young lion and dragon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Praise ye Jehovah from the earth, Dragons and all deeps,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 - And Aiim have responded in his forsaken habitations, And dragons in palaces of delight, And near to come is her time, And her days are not drawn out!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 - In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword -- the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan -- a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan -- a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that is in the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble are in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - Honour me doth the beast of the field, Dragons and daughters of an ostrich, For I have given in a wilderness waters, Floods in a desolate place, To give drink to My people -- My chosen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as in days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - A voice of a report, lo, it hath come, Even a great shaking from the north country, To make the cities of Judah a desolation, A habitation of dragons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 - And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - And Hazor hath been for a habitation of dragons, A desolation -- unto the age, No one doth dwell there, nor sojourn in it doth a son of man!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us as an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Speak, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt! The great dragon that is crouching in the midst of his floods, Who hath said, My flood is my own, And I -- I have made it for myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.
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