Hebrew word · H8565

תַּן

katanim

dragon

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

dragon, maybe the extinct dinosaur the plesiosaurus, whale

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Ezekiel · 1

  1. Ezekiel 32:2 כַּתַּנִּ֣ים [were] like <the> sea monster

    “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

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