H8577B

תַּנִּין

tan.ninH:N-M

Dragon

This name means dragon, serpent, sea monster

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

תַּנִּין (erroneous תַּנִּים) noun masculine^{Ezek 29:3} serpent, dragon, sea-monster (Late Hebrew id. (rare); Arabic , loan-word from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא, Frä¹²³; Ethiopic ); — absolute ׳ת Exod 7:9 +, יִ֯ם Ezek 29:3; Ezek 32:2 (by confusion with plural of [תַּן]); plural תַּנִּינַם Gen 1:21, etc.; —

1. serpent, Deut 32:33 (venomous), Ps 91:13 (|| פֶּתֶן), Exod 7:9; Exod 7:10; Exod 7:12 (P).

2. dragon, as devourer (simile) Jer 51:34 ׳עֵין הַתּ Neh 2:13, near Jerusalem

3. sea- (or river-) monster, Gen 1:21 (P); figurative Job 7:12; Ps 74:13 (i.e. Egyptains), Isa 27:1; Isa 51:9 (|| רַהַב, mythological personification of chaos); in summons to praise ׳י Ps 148:7 (|| תְּהֹמוֺת). — See Che^{Ency. Bib. DRAGON} Gunk^{Seh-pfung 69 ff.} Barton^{JAOS xv. 1 (1891). 23 f.}; personified of water-spout RS^{Semitic i. 161; 2nd ed. 176}; compare Greek fish-name θύννος Lewy^{Fremdw. 15}.

1 occurrence

Nehemiah 2:13