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"So God created the Great Dragons" ...Genesis 1:21 The Latin Vulgate; 5th Century
"Look at the behemoth, which I made along with you
and which feeds on grass like an ox. What strength he has in his loins, what power in the muscles of his belly! His tail sways like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are close-knit. His bones are tubes of bronze,
his limbs like rods of iron.
He ranks first among the works of God..." Job 40 KJV
S8int.com: The question is sometimes derisively asked "why doesn't the Bible mention dinosaurs, if it is inspired"? The answer is- it does!
It just doesn't call them dinosaurs, a term that was not even invented until the mid 1800's--a term that literally means "terrible lizard". 
Is that any better a term for the group than is ; "great dragons", "sea monsters", "monsters", "great creatures", "monsters" or "serpents"?
These are some of the ways the word "tannim" or "tanniym" have been translated. (The Romans called this highlighted, 1st century "dinosaur" a "crocodile leopard, no doubt because it was reptilian like a crocodile, yet fast like a leopard).
If God created "dinosaurs", He did so at the same time as He created the other animals. In Genesis 1 verse 21 translators had their first opportunity to translate "tannim" a word Strong’s translates as: dragon or dinosaur; sea or river monster; serpent, or venomous snake. Yet, the KJV translated the word as "whales"?
Perhaps the KJV translators and later translators of other versions were trying to help God out; believing dragons to be mythological, they translated tannim as other animals so as to avoid embarrassment for Christians and for God. God didn't need their help.
After this excellent article about the translation of the word "tannim" in the Bible; we've produced a table which presents the verses containing the word in question. In each case, we've left the translation of the word to you. To the right of each verse are clues; along with the context of the verse, we give you as examples the way five translations translated the word in each verse. It's amazing how even the same translations often translate "tannim" inconsistently!. The question here is; what word would you choose and do you agree that the Bible did in fact mention dinosaur like animals?
Tannin and the plural tanninim occur 14 times, and in English Versions of the Bible are variously rendered "dragon," "whale," "serpent" or "sea-monster"; but Lamentations 4:3, the King James Version "sea-monster," the King James Version margin"sea calves," the Revised Version (British and American) "jackals."
Tannim occurs 12 times, and is rendered "dragons," the Revised Version (British and American) "jackals," except in Ezekiel 29:3, where the King James Version has "dragon" (the American Standard Revised Version "monster"), and in Ezekiel 32:2, where the King James Version has "whale" and the English Revised Version and the King James Version margin"dragon" (the American Standard Revised Version "monster").
Tannoth occurs once, in Malachi 1:3, where it is rendered "dragons," the Revised Version (British and American) "jackals." Drakon occurs 12 times in Revelation 12; 13; 16; and 20, where it is uniformly rendered "dragon." (Compare Arabic tinnin, the constellation, Draco.) Tannoth (Septuagint domata, "dwellings") is a feminine plural form as if from tannah, but it suits the context to give it the same meaning as tannim.
In Exodus 7:9,10,12, tannin is used of the serpents which were produced from Aaron's rod and the rods of the Egyptian magicians, whereas in Exodus 4:3 and 7:15, for the serpent produced from Aaron's rod, we find nachash, the ordinary word for serpent.
In two passages we find "whale," the Revised Version (British and American) "sea-monster"; Genesis 1:21: "And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth"; Job 7:12: "Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, that thou settest a watch over me?"
Other passages (the English Revised Version and the King James Version) are Deuteronomy 32:33: "Their wine is the poison of dragons (the American Standard Revised Version "serpents"), and the cruel venom of asps"; Nehemiah 2:13: "And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the dragon's (the American Standard Revised Version "jackal's") well" (the King James Version "dragon well");
Psalms 91:13: "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the serpent (the King James Version "dragon") shalt thou trample under foot ";
Psalms 148:7: "Praise Yahweh from the earth, ye sea-monsters (the King James Version "dragons"), and all deeps";
Jeremiah 51:34: "Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, .... like a monster" (the King James Version "dragon").
Here also two tannim passages; Ezekiel 29:3: "Thus saith the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster (the King James Version "dragon") that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself"; and Ezekiel 32:2:
"Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a monster (the English Revised Version "dragon," the King James Version "whale") in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers and troubledst the waters with thy feet,(do whales have feet?) and fouledst their rivers."
The foregoing passages offer no especial difficulties in the interpretation of the word tannin. All may fairly be understood to refer to a serpent or sea-monster or some imaginary creature, without invoking any ancient myths for their elucidation.
The same may be said of the passages in Revelation. A dragon is taken as the personification of Satan, as of Pharaoh in the passages in Ezekiel. It is of course true that ancient myths may more or less distantly underlie some of these dragon and serpent references, and such myths may be demonstrated to throw additional light in certain cases, but at least the passages in question are intelligible without recourse to the myths.
This however is not equally true of all the tannin passages. In Psalms 74:12 we read: "Yet God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters (the King James Version "dragons") in the waters." Compare Isaiah 27:1; 51:9 f.
The three passages just cited seem to denote each some particular act, and are referred by Canon Cheyne (Encyclopedia Biblica, under the word "Dragon") to the old Babylonian myth of the conflict of Marduk and Tiamat in the Assyrian creation- legend (thus Gunkel, etc.).
Indeed he refers to that myth not only these passages, but also Jeremiah 5:24; Ezekiel 29:3-6; 32:2-8 and Job 7:12, which have been cited above.
In translating the last two passages, Canon Cheyne uses the definite article, "the dragon," instead of "a" as in the Revised Version (British and American), which makes a great difference in the meaning.
In Psalms 87:4, it is clear that Rahab is a country, i.e. Egypt. Isaiah 30:7 is to the same point. In Isaiah 51:9,10, "that didst cut Rahab in pieces" and "that didst pierce the monster" (the King James Version "dragon"), are two coordinate expressions of one idea, which is apparently the defeat of the Egyptians, as appears in the reference to the passage of the Red Sea.
In Isaiah 27:1, "leviathan the swift serpent" and "leviathan the crooked serpent" and "the monster (the King James Version and the English Revised Version "dragon") that is in the sea" have been identified with Babylon, Persia and Egypt (Encyclopedia Biblica, under the word "Dragon," 4).
It is more probable that the first two expressions are coordinate, and amount to "leviathan the swift and crooked serpent," and that the verse may therefore refer to Babylonia and Egypt.
Psalms 74:12-15 is more in line with the idea of the article in EB, but it is nevertheless susceptible of an explanation similar to that of the other two passages.
Tannim, "dragons" (the Revised Version (British and American) "jackals") occurs in Job 30:29; Psalms 44:19; Isaiah 13:22; 34:13; 35:7; 43:20; Jeremiah 9:11; 10:22; 14:6; 49:33; 51:37; tannoth, "dragons" (the Revised Version (British and American) "jackals") is found in Malachi 1:3. In all these passages, "jackal" suits the context better than "dragon," "sea-monster" or "serpent."
An exception to the rendering of "dragon" or "serpent" or "sea-monster" for tannin is found in Lamentations 4:3: "Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones."
The King James Version has "seamonster," the King James Version margin "sea calves."
A mammal is indicated, and the Revised Version (British and American) apparently assumes that tannin is an error for tannim. Two other exceptions are in Ezekiel 29:3 and Ezekiel 32:2, where English Versions of the Bible renders tannim by "dragon," since in these two passages "jackal" obviously will not suit.
Alfred Ely Day
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Results for tanniyn (Strong's 08577)
Hebrew for 08577
Pronunciation Guide
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Tanniyn {tan-neen'} or tanniym (Ezek 29:3) {tan-neem'} |
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1) dragon, serpent, sea
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a) dragon or dinosaur |
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b) sea or river monster |
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c) serpent, venomous snake |
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tanniyn (Strong's 08577) occurs 28 times in
28 verses: Page 1, verses 1 - 25 |
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Gen 1:21 And
God 0430
created 01254
great 01419 -------------------?08577,
and every living 02416
creature 05315
that moveth 07430
, which the waters 04325
brought forth abundantly 08317
, after their kind 04327,
and every winged 03671
fowl 05775
after his kind 04327:
and God 0430
saw 07200
that [it was] good 02896.
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CSE: giant sea monsters; KJV:great whales;YLT: great monsters;NASB;
great sea monsters; NIV: great creatures of the sea |
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Exd 7:9 When Pharaoh 06547
shall speak 01696
unto you, saying 0559
, Shew 05414
a miracle 04159
for you: then thou shalt say 0559
unto Aaron 0175,
Take 03947
thy rod 04294,
and cast 07993
[it] before 06440
Pharaoh 06547,
[and] it shall become a -------------------?08577 |
CSE: snake; KJV:serpent;YLT: monster; NASB;snake; NIV: serpent |
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Exd 7:10 And Moses 04872
and Aaron 0175
went in 0935
unto Pharaoh 06547,
and they did 06213
so as the LORD 03068
had commanded 06680
: and Aaron 0175
cast down 07993
his rod 04294
before 06440
Pharaoh 06547,
and before 06440
his servants 05650,
and it became a -------------------?08577.
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CSE: snake; KJV:serpent;YLT: monster; NASB;snake; NIV: serpent |
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Exd 7:12 For they cast down 07993
every man 0376
his rod 04294, and they
became -------------------?08577:
but Aaron's 0175
rod 04294
swallowed up 01104
their rods 04294.
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CSE: snake; KJV:serpent;YLT: monster; NASB;snake; NIV: serpent |
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Deu 32:33 Their wine 03196
[is] the poison 02534
of -------------------?08577, and the cruel 0393
venom 07219
of asps 06620.
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CSE:cobra; KJV:dragons;YLT: dragons;
NASB;serpents; NIV: serpents |
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Neh 2:13 And I went out 03318
by night 03915
by the gate 08179
of the valley 01516,
even before 06440
the -------------------?08577
well 05869
05886,
and to the dung 0830
port 08179,
and viewed 07663
07665
the walls 02346
of Jerusalem 03389,
which were broken down 06555
, and the gates 08179
thereof were consumed 0398
with fire 0784.
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CSE: dragons; KJV:dragons;YLT: dragons;
NASB; dragons; NIV: jackals |
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Job 7:12
[Am] I a sea 03220,
or a -------------------?08577,
that thou settest 07760
a watch 04929
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CSE: sea monster; KJV:whale;YLT:
[monster] dragon; NASB; sea monster; NIV: monster |
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Job 30:29 I
am a brother 0251
to -------------------?08577,
and a companion 07453
to owls 01323
03284.
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CSE: jackals; KJV: dragons;YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Psa 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken 01794
us in the place 04725
of -------------------?08577,
and covered 03680
us with the shadow of death 06757.
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CSE: wild animals; KJV: dragons;YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Psa 74:13 Thou didst divide 06565
the sea 03220
by thy strength 05797:
thou brakest 07665
the heads 07218
of the -------------------?08577
in the waters 04325.
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CSE: sea monsters; KJV: dragons;YLT: dragons; NASB; sea monsters; NIV: monsters |
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Psa 91:13 Thou shalt tread 01869
upon the lion 07826
and adder 06620:
the young lion 03715
and the -------------------?08577shalt
thou trample under feet 07429
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CSE: deadly snakes; KJV: dragons;YLT: dragons; NASB; serpent; NIV: serpent |
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Psa 148:7 Praise 01984
the LORD 03068
from the earth 0776,
ye -------------------?08577,
and all deeps 08415:
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CSE: creatures; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; sea monsters; NIV: sea creatures |
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Isa 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands 0338
shall cry 06030
in their desolate houses 0490,
and -------------------?08577in
[their] pleasant 06027
palaces 01964:
and her time 06256
[is] near 07138
to come 0935
, and her days 03117
shall not be prolonged 04900
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CSE: Hyenas and wolves;
KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Isa 27:1 In that day 03117
the LORD 03068
with his sore 07186
and great 01419
and strong 02389
sword 02719
shall punish 06485
leviathan 03882
the piercing 01281
serpent 05175,
even leviathan 03882
that crooked 06129
serpent 05175;
and he shall slay 02026
the -------------------?08577
that [is] in the sea 03220.
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CSE: sea monster; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: monster |
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Isa 34:13 And thorns 05518
shall come up 05927
in her palaces 0759,
nettles 07057
and brambles 02336
in the fortresses 04013
thereof: and it shall be an habitation 05116
of -------------------?08577,
[and] a court 02681
for owls 01323
03284.
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CSE: wolves; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Isa 35:7 And the parched ground 08273
shall become a pool 098,
and the thirsty land 06774
springs 04002
of water 04325:
in the habitation 05116
of -------------------?08577,
where each lay 07258,
[shall be] grass 02682
with reeds 07070
and rushes 01573.
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CSE: wild dogs; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Isa 43:20 The beast 02416
of the field 07704
shall honour 03513
me, the -------------------?08577
and the owls 01323
03284:
because I give 05414
waters 04325
in the wilderness 04057,
[and] rivers 05104
in the desert 03452,
to give drink 08248
to my people 05971,
my chosen 0972.
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CSE: jackals; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Isa 51:9 Awake 05782
, awake 05782
, put on 03847
strength 05797,
O arm 02220
of the LORD 03068;
awake 05782
, as in the ancient 06924
days 03117,
in the generations 01755
of old 05769.
[Art] thou not it that hath cut 02672
Rahab 07294,
[and] wounded 02490
the -------------------?08577 |
CSE: monster; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; dragons; NIV: monster |
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Jer 9:11 And I will make 05414
Jerusalem 03389
heaps 01530, [and] a den 04583
of -------------------?08577;
and I will make 05414
the cities 05892
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CSE: jackals; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Jer 10:22 Behold, the noise 06963
of the bruit 08052
is come 0935
, and a great 01419
commotion 07494
out of the north 06828
country 0776,
to make 07760
the cities 05892
of Judah 03063
desolate 08077,
[and] a den 04583
of -------------------?08577.
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CSE: jackals; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Jer 14:6 And the wild asses 06501
did stand 05975
in the high places 08205,
they snuffed up 07602
the wind 07307
like -------------------?08577;
their eyes 05869
did fail 03615
, because [there was] no grass 06212.
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CSE: ; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Jer 49:33 And Hazor 02674
shall be a dwelling 04583
for -------------------?08577,
[and] a desolation 08077
for 05704
ever 05769:
there shall no man 0376
abide 03427
there, nor [any] son 01121
of man 0120
dwell 01481
in it. |
CSE: jackals ; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Jer 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar 05019
the king 04428
of Babylon 0894
hath devoured 0398
me, he hath crushed 02000
me, he hath made 03322
me an empty 07385
vessel 03627,
he hath swallowed me up 01104
like a -------------------?08577,
he hath filled 04390
his belly 03770
with my delicates 05730, he hath cast me out 01740
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CSE: monster ; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; monster; NIV: serpent |
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Jer 51:37 And Babylon 0894
shall become heaps 01530,
a dwellingplace 04583
for -------------------?08577,
an astonishment 08047,
and an hissing 08322,
without an inhabitant 03427
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CSE: jackals ; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Lam 4:3 Even
the -------------------?08577
draw out 02502
the breast 07699,
they give suck 03243
to their young ones 01482:
the daughter 01323
of my people 05971
[is become] cruel 0393,
like the ostriches 03283
in the wilderness 04057.
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CSE: jackals ; KJV: sea monsters; YLT: dragons; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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Eze 29:3 Speak 01696
, and say 0559
, Thus saith 0559
the Lord 0136
GOD 03069;
Behold, I [am] against thee, Pharaoh 06547
king 04428
of Egypt 04714,
the great 01419 -------------------?08577
that lieth 07257
in the midst 08432
of his rivers 02975,
which hath said 0559
, My river 02975
[is] mine own, and I have made 06213
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CSE: crocodile ; KJV: dragon; YLT: dragon; NASB; monster; NIV: monster |
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Eze 32:2 Son 01121
of man 0120,
take up 05375
a lamentation 07015
for Pharaoh 06547
king 04428
of Egypt 04714,
and say 0559
unto him, Thou art like 01819
a young lion 03715
of the nations 01471,
and thou [art] as a -------------------?08577
08565
in the seas 03220:
and thou camest forth 01518
with thy rivers 05104,
and troubledst 01804
the waters 04325
with thy feet 07272,
and fouledst 07515
their rivers 05104.
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CSE: crocodile ; KJV: crocodile; YLT: dragon; NASB; monster; NIV: monster |
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Mic 1:8 Therefore I will wail 05594
and howl 03213
, I will go 03212
stripped 07758
07758 and naked 06174:
I will make 06213
a wailing 04553
like the -------------------?08577,
and mourning 060
as the owls 01323
03284.
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CSE: wolves ; KJV: dragons; YLT: dragon; NASB; jackals; NIV: jackals |
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