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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, ὁ, (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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:3 - Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:4 - Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:7 - Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:9 - The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:13 - When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:16 - But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:17 - Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring—those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:2 - The beast I saw resembled a leopard, but had feet like those of a bear and a mouth like that of a lion. The dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:4 - People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast and asked, “Who is like the beast? Who can wage war against it?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:11 - Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:13 - Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:2 - He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
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