H8577 תַּנִּין (tannîyn) tan-neen'

Hebrew

Biblical Persons & Places

Dragon_Spring Dragon Spring= in Jerusalem (Jerusalem@Gen.14.18-Rev=H3389)

A location in Jerusalem only mentioned at Neh.2.13; referred to as Dragon Spring (KJV= "dragon well," NIV= Jackal Well) (תַּנִּין עַ֫יִן) .

Strong's Definition

a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal

Derivation: or תַּנִּים; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565 (תַּן);

KJV Usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.

TWOT Reference: 2528b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) dragon, serpent, sea monster

1a) dragon or dinosaur

1b) sea or river monster

1c) serpent, venomous snake

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G1404 G1404 G2561 G2785

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

תַּן (tan) — jackal. jackal Also means: tan.nah (תַּנָּה "dragon" H8568)

תַּנִּין (tan.nin) — Dragon.

This name means dragon, serpent, sea monster

תַּנִּין (tan.nin) — serpent: snake. 1) dragon, serpent, sea monster 1a) dragon or dinosaur 1b) sea or river monster 1c) serpent, venomous snake Also means: tan.nin (תַּנִּין ": monster" H8577N)

תַּנִּין (tan.nin) — serpent: monster. 1) dragon, serpent, sea monster 1a) dragon or dinosaur 1b) sea or river monster 1c) serpent, venomous snake

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

תַּנִּין (H8577 · H8565) — תַּנִּים

noun m · עֵין הַתַּנִּין

Aquatic Animals

sea monster = sea monster, such as behemoth and leviathan

GEN 1:21 · JOB 7:12 · PSA 74:13 · PSA 148:7 · ISA 27:1 · ISA 51:9 · JER 51:34 · EZK 29:3 · EZK 32:2

Small Animals | ≈ פֶּתֶן

snake, serpent = long legless reptile without eyelids or external ears; it moves by wriggling or gliding; some species have a poisonous bite; ≈ symbol of lurking, unexpected danger

EXO 7:9 · EXO 7:10 · EXO 7:12 · DEU 32:33 · PSA 91:13

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[תַּן] n.[m. et] f. jackal base

תַּנִּין (erron. תַּנִּים) n.m. serpent, dragon, sea-monster base

Bible Occurrences (28)

1:21

7:9 7:10 7:12

32:33

2:13

7:12 30:29

44:19 74:13 91:13 148:7

13:22 27:1 34:13 35:7 43:20 51:9

9:11 10:22 14:6 49:33 51:34 51:37

4:3

29:3 32:2

1:8

Genesis 1:21

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, [with] which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that [it was] good.

Exodus 7:9

When Pharaoh tells you,... Perform a miracle, you are to say... to Aaron, Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, [and] it {will} become a serpent.

Exodus 7:10

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did... just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff {down} before Pharaoh... and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Exodus 7:12

Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up [the other] staffs.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Nehemiah 2:13

So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward... the Well of the Serpent... and the Dung... Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Job 7:12

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under... guard?

Job 30:29

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.