Lexicon tan: a jackal Original Word: תַּנִּיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: tan Phonetic Spelling: (tan) Short Definition: jackals NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiona jackal NASB Translationjackals (14).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ תַּן] noun [masculine and] feminineLamentations 4:3 jackal (so most; Tr NHB 109 ff., 263 f. Shipley-Cook Ency. Bib. JACKAL; but wolf Post Hast. DB DRAGON, compare Che Isaiah 13:22 and (rare) Arabic  ); — plural תַּנִּים Micah 1:8 +, תַּנִּין Lamentations 4:3 (Ges § 87e), לְתַנּוֺת Malachi 1:3 (si vera lectio; ᵐ5 Thes and others interpret = dwellings, Sta Now conjecture נְאוֺת, Marti נָתַתִּי לְ); — jackal, howling mournfully in waste places, Micah 1:8; Job 30:29 (both "" בְּנוֺת יַעֲנָה), Isaiah 13:22 ("" אִיִּים), in desert also Isaiah 43:20 ("" בְּנוֺת יַעֲנָה); deserted sites called ׳מְעוֺן ת Jeremiah 9:10; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 49:33; Jeremiah 51:37, ׳נְוֵה ת Isaiah 34:13; Isaiah 35:7, ׳מְקוֺם ת Psalms; מִדְבָּר ׳ת Malachi 1:3 (si vera lectio, but see above); ׳ת as snuffing up wind Jeremiah 14:6, giving suck Lamentations 4:3. Strong's dragon, whale From an unused root probably meaning to elongate; a monster (as preternaturally formed), i.e. A sea-serpent (or other huge marine animal); also a jackal (or other hideous land animal) -- dragon, whale. Compare tanniyn. see HEBREW tanniyn |
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