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Lexicon :: Strong's G1404 - drakōn

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δράκων
Transliteration
drakōn (Key)
Pronunciation
drak'-own
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from an alternate form of derkomai (to look)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:281,186

Strong’s Definitions

δράκων drákōn, drak'-own; probably from an alternate form of δέρκομαι dérkomai (to look); a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate):—dragon.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's G1404 in the following manner: dragon (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G1404 in the following manner: dragon (13x).
  1. a dragon, a great serpent, a name for Satan

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
δράκων drákōn, drak'-own; probably from an alternate form of δέρκομαι dérkomai (to look); a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate):—dragon.
STRONGS G1404:
δράκων, -οντος, , (apparently from δέρκομαι, 2 aorist ἔδρακον; hence, δράκων, properly, equivalent to ὀξὺ βλέπων [Etym. Magn. 286, 7; cf. Curtius, § 13]); Sept. chiefly for תָּנִּין; a dragon, a great serpent, a fabulous animal (so as early as Homer, Iliad 2, 308f, etc.). From it, after Genesis 3:1ff, is derived the figurative description of the devil in Revelation 12:3-17; Revelation 13:2, 4, 11; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 20:2. [Cf. Baudissin, Studien zur semitisch. Religionsgesch. vol. i. (iv. 4), p. 281ff.]
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
3:1
Revelation
12:3-17; 13:2; 13:4; 13:11; 16:13; 20:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1404 matches the Greek δράκων (drakōn),
which occurs 13 times in 12 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:3 - Then I witnessed in heaven another significant event. I saw a large red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, with seven crowns on his heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:4 - His tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky, and he threw them to the earth. He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to devour her baby as soon as it was born.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:7 - Then there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:9 - This great dragon—the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world—was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:13 - When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:16 - But the earth helped her by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that gushed out from the mouth of the dragon.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:17 - And the dragon was angry at the woman and declared war against the rest of her children—all who keep God’s commandments and maintain their testimony for Jesus.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:2 - This beast looked like a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion! And the dragon gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:4 - They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they also worshiped the beast. “Who is as great as the beast?” they exclaimed. “Who is able to fight against him?”
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:11 - Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:13 - And I saw three evil[fn] spirits that looked like frogs leap from the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:2 - He seized the dragon—that old serpent, who is the devil, Satan—and bound him in chains for a thousand years.
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