Strong H85774 sensesתַּן

The 4 senses of Strong H8577

The lexicon tells 4 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H8577 appears in 28 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

1. jackalH8577AAlso means: tan.nah (תַּנָּה "dragon" H8568)13 verses · 6 books
2. serpent: monsterתַּנִּיןH8577N8 verses · 6 books
3. serpent: snakeתַּנִּיןH8577M5 verses · Exodus, Deuteronomy, Psalms
4. DragonתַּנִּיןH8577BA water source near Jerusalem, mentioned in Nehemiah's wall inspection.1 verse · Nehemiah

General definition

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

• dragon21
• become3
• whale3
• monster1

First verses

1. Genesis 1:21
   And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
2. Exodus 7:9
   When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
3. Exodus 7:10
   And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
4. Exodus 7:12
   For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
5. Deuteronomy 32:33
   Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
6. Nehemiah 2:13
   And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
7. Job 7:12
   Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
8. Job 30:29
   I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
9. Psalms 44:19
   Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
10. Psalms 74:13
    Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
11. Psalms 91:13
    Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
12. Psalms 148:7
    Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps:
13. Isaiah 13:22
    And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14. Isaiah 27:1
    In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
15. Isaiah 34:13
    And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
16. Isaiah 35:7
    And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
17. Isaiah 43:20
    The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
18. Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
19. Jeremiah 9:11
    And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
20. Jeremiah 10:22
    Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.