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Lexicon :: Strong's H8577 - tannîn

Aa
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 BoxGen 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:21 - And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:9 - If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:10 - Then Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and they did as the Lord had said: and Aaron put his rod down on the earth before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a snake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:12 - For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:33 - Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - And I went out by night, through the doorway of the valley, and past the dragon's water-spring as far as the place where waste material was put, viewing the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down, and the doorways which had been burned with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:19 - Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:13 - The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:13 - You will put your foot on the lion and the snake; the young lion and the great snake will be crushed under your feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:7 - Give praise to the Lord from the earth, you great sea-beasts, and deep places:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 - And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:1 - In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:13 - And thorns will come up in her fair houses, and waste plants in her strong towers: and foxes will make their holes there, and it will be a meeting-place for ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:20 - The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:9 - Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:11 - And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:22 - News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:6 - And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:37 - And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:3 - Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.
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