H8577 תַּנִּין
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 28 KJV occurrences
תַּנִּין
tannîyn · tan-neen'
Definition
a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
KJV Renderings
dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
Derivation / Etymology
or תַּנִּים; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565 (תַּן);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 28)
- Genesis 1:21And 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.
- Exodus 7:12For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
- Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Psalms 91:13Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Isaiah 34:13And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
- Isaiah 51:9¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Jeremiah 49:33And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
- Lamentations 4:3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.