Tannîyn — H8577

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. dragon, serpent, sea monster
1. dragon or dinosaur
2. sea or river monster
3. serpent, venomous snake

Usually translated as

dragon, serpent, whale, sea-monster

Origin

or tannîym; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565

• Same as Tan (H8565)

Greek equivalents

• drákōn (G1404)
• kákōsis (G2561)
• kētos (G2785)

Occurrences

Tannîyn occurs 23 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (3), Deuteronomy (1), Nehemiah (1), Job (2), Psalms (4), Isaiah (3), Jeremiah (6), Ezekiel (2)

• Genesis 1:21 — And God created great whales (הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם), 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 7:9 — When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent (לְתַנִּֽין).
• Exodus 7:10 — And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent (לְתַנִּֽין).
• Exodus 7:12 — For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents (לְתַנִּינִ֑ם): but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
• Deuteronomy 32:33 — Their wine is the poison of dragons (תַּנִּינִ֖ם), and the cruel venom of asps.
• Nehemiah 2:13 — And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon (הַתַּנִּ֔ין) well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
• Job 7:12 — Am I a sea, or a whale (תַּנִּ֑ין), that thou settest a watch over me?
• Job 30:29 — I am a brother to dragons (לְתַנִּ֑ים), and a companion to owls.
• Psalms 44:19 — Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons (תַּנִּ֑ים), and covered us with the shadow of death.
• Psalms 74:13 — Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons (תַ֝נִּינִ֗ים) in the waters.
• Psalms 91:13 — Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon (וְתַנִּֽין) shalt thou trample under feet.
• Psalms 148:7 — Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons (תַּ֝נִּינִ֗ים), and all deeps:
• Isaiah 13:22 — And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons (וְתַנִּ֖ים) in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
• Isaiah 27:1 — In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon (הַתַּנִּ֖ין) that is in the sea.
• 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 (תַּנִּֽין)?
• Jeremiah 9:11 — And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons (תַּנִּ֑ים); and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
• Jeremiah 10:22 — Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons (תַּנִּֽים).
• Jeremiah 14:6 — And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons (כַּתַּנִּ֑ים); their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
• Jeremiah 49:33 — And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons (תַּנִּ֛ים), and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
• Jeremiah 51:34 — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon (כַּתַּנִּ֔ין), he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
• Jeremiah 51:37 — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons (תַּנִּ֛ים), an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.
• Ezekiel 29:3 — Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon (הַתַּנִּים֙) that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
• Ezekiel 32:2 — Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.