# תַּנִּין (tanin) Israeli respelling: ta-nin. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H8577. 26 Old Testament occurrences. a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal King James renderings: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tanin-h8577 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 1:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Exodus 7:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Exodus 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Exodus 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/7/12) — For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods. - [Deuteronomy 32:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/32/33) — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. - [Nehemiah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, wh… - [Job 7:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/12) — Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? - [Job 30:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/30/29) — I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - [Psalms 44:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/44/19) — Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. - [Psalms 74:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/74/13) — Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. - [Psalms 91:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/91/13) — Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. - [Psalms 148:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/148/7) — Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: - [Isaiah 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,… - [Isaiah 27:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 serp… - [Isaiah 34:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 co… - [Isaiah 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 g… - [Isaiah 43:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 giv… - [Isaiah 51:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 R… - [Jeremiah 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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. - [Jeremiah 10:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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… - [Jeremiah 14:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/6) — And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass. - [Jeremiah 49:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/33) — And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it. - [Jeremiah 51:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/34) — Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dr… - [Jeremiah 51:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/37) — And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant. - [Ezekiel 29:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/29/3) — Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his… - [Micah 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/8) — Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.