Lexical Summary tannin: serpent, dragon, sea monster Original Word: תַּנִּיןTransliteration: tannin Phonetic Spelling: (tan-neen') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: serpent, dragon, sea monster Meaning: a marine, land monster, sea-serpent, jackal Strong's Concordance dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale Or tanniym (Ezek. 29:3) {tan-neem'}; intensive from the same as tan; a marine or land monster, i.e. Sea-serpent or jackal -- dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale. see HEBREW tan Brown-Driver-Briggs H8577. tannin תַּנִּין (erroneous תַּנִּים) noun masculineEzekiel 29:3 serpent, dragon, sea-monster (Late Hebrew id. (rare); Arabic , loan-word from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא, Frä123; Ethiopic ); — absolute ׳ת Exodus 7:9 +, יִ֯ם Ezekiel 29:3; 32:2 (by confusion with plural of [תַּן]); plural תַּנִּינַם Genesis 1:21, etc.; — 1 serpent, Deuteronomy 32:33 (venomous), Psalm 91:13 ("" מֶּתֶן), Exodus 7:9-10, 12 (P). 2 dragon, as devourer (simile) Jeremiah 51:34; הַתּ ׳עֵין 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; 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. II. תנן (√ of following; apparently "" נתן; compare also I. תנה). |
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