תַּנִּיןtannîyn
serpent, dragon, sea-monster
Pronunciation: tan-neen' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8577
Meanings
1. serpent (Deuteronomy 32:33; Psalms 91:13; Exodus 7:9)
2. dragon (Jeremiah 51:34; Nehemiah 2:13)
3. sea- (or river-) monster (Genesis 1:21; Job 7:12; Psalms 74:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 28 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 7:9 “Pharaoh will demand, ‘Show me a miracle.’ When he does this, say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.’”
- Exodus 7:10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did what the Lord had commanded them. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent!
- Exodus 7:12 They threw down their staffs, which also became serpents! But then Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
- Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- Nehemiah 2:13 After dark I went out through the Valley Gate, past the Jackal’s Well, and over to the Dung Gate to inspect the broken walls and burned gates.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).