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Sea Monsters Dragons

Community Cluster · 7 senses · 5 lemmas

Lemmas in this domain

† תַּנִּין (erron. תַּנִּים) n.m. Ez 29:3 serpent, dragon, sea-monster (NH id. (rare); Arabic تَنِّينٌ, loan-word from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא, ܬܰܢܺܝܢܳܐ Frä123; Ethiopic ተመን );—abs. ת׳ Ex 7:9 +, ים— Ez 29:3; 32:2 (by confusion with pl. of [תַּן]); pl. תַּנִּינִם Gn 1:21, etc.;— 1. serpent, Dt 32:33 (venomous), ψ 91:13 (‖ פֶּתֶן), Ex 7:9, 10, 12 (P). 2. dragon, as devourer (sim.) Je 51:34; עֵין הַתּ׳ Ne 2:13, near Jerus. 3. sea- (or river-) monster, Gn 1:21 (P); fig. Jb 7:12 ψ 74:13 (i.e. Egyptians), Is 27:1; 51:9 (‖ רַהַב mythol. personif. of chaos) Ez 29:3; 32:2; called to praise י׳ ψ 148:7 (‖ תְּהֹמוֹת).—Vid. CheEncy. Bib. dragon GunkSchöpfung 69 ff. BartonJAOS xv. 1(1891), 23 f.; personif. of water-spout RSSem i. 161; 2nd ed. 176; cf. Gk. fish-name θύννος LewyFremdw. 15.
H8577b pos Prep-l | N-mp senses here 2 total 3 occ. 14
δράκων [ᾰ], οντος, o(: (probably from δέρκομαι, δρᾰκεῖν,Refs 3rd c.AD+:— dragon, serpent, Refs 8th c.BC+; perhaps a water-snake, Refs __II the constellation Draco, Refs 4th c.BC+ __III a sea-fish, the great weever, Refs 5th c.BC+ __IV ={κηρύκειον}, probably a wand with a serpent coiled round it, Refs 5th c.BC+ __IV.2 serpent-shaped bracelet or necklace, Refs 2nd c.AD+ __IV.3 a noose or crossed bandage for the ankle, Heraclas cited in Refs 4th c.AD+ __IV.4 dragon-standard, Refs 4th c.AD+: hence, corps of 1,000 men in the Parthian army, Refs 2nd c.AD+
G1404 pos N-AMS senses here 1 total 1 occ. 13
† לִוְיָתָן n.m. Jb 40:25 serpent, dragon, leviathan, poet. and rare (on format. from לוה c. fem. ת + ָן v. Thes and cf. Ges§ 85, 54 Köii, p. 99 BaNB § 207 c; LagBN 205 (thinks foreign loan-word);—sea-monster = crocodile Jb 40:25; whale ψ 104:26 (v. Che); dragon producing eclipses (mythol.) Jb 3:8; fig. of Egypt as all-engulfing ψ 74:14 (‖ תַּנִּינִים v 13); cf. Is 27:1(×2) (‖ נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, נָחָשׁ עֲקַלָּתוֹן), v. Che Di and especially (on ל׳ in gen.) BartonTiamat, JAOS xv (1891), 22 ff. GunkelSchöpf. u. Chaos 46.
H3882 pos N-ms senses here 2 total 2 occ. 6
κῆτος, εος, τό, any sea-monster or huge fish, δελφῖνάς τε κύνας τε καὶ εἴ ποθι μεῖζον ἑλῃσι κῆτος Refs 8th c.BC+; of seals, Refs 8th c.BC+; of the monster to which Andromeda was exposed, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the tunny, Refs 4th c.BC+ __2 in Natural History, of the spouting cetacea, Refs 4th c.BC+ __II name of a constellation, Refs 4th c.BC+
G2785 pos N-GNS senses here 1 total 1 occ. 1
† תַּנִּין (erron. תַּנִּים) n.m. Ez 29:3 serpent, dragon, sea-monster (NH id. (rare); Arabic تَنِّينٌ, loan-word from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא, ܬܰܢܺܝܢܳܐ Frä123; Ethiopic ተመን );—abs. ת׳ Ex 7:9 +, ים— Ez 29:3; 32:2 (by confusion with pl. of [תַּן]); pl. תַּנִּינִם Gn 1:21, etc.;— 1. serpent, Dt 32:33 (venomous), ψ 91:13 (‖ פֶּתֶן), Ex 7:9, 10, 12 (P). 2. dragon, as devourer (sim.) Je 51:34; עֵין הַתּ׳ Ne 2:13, near Jerus. 3. sea- (or river-) monster, Gn 1:21 (P); fig. Jb 7:12 ψ 74:13 (i.e. Egyptians), Is 27:1; 51:9 (‖ רַהַב mythol. personif. of chaos) Ez 29:3; 32:2; called to praise י׳ ψ 148:7 (‖ תְּהֹמוֹת).—Vid. CheEncy. Bib. dragon GunkSchöpfung 69 ff. BartonJAOS xv. 1(1891), 23 f.; personif. of water-spout RSSem i. 161; 2nd ed. 176; cf. Gk. fish-name θύννος LewyFremdw. 15.
H8565 pos Prep-k senses here 1 total 1 occ. 1