Greek noun (masculine) · G1404
δράκων
drakondrak'-own
dragon
13 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: drákōn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1404is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1404
a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate)
The King James renders it: dragon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
drakon is rendered "dragon". It stands 13 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Thirteen of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Revelation 12:3Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
Revelation 12:3δράκων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Thirteen of the word's thirteen uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dragon11
- a dragon2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- δράκων9
- δράκοντος2
- δράκοντα1
- δράκοντι1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular9N-NSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
Revelation
thirteen uses
Then another sign appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and seven royal crowns on his heads.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a dragon
His tail swept a third of the stars from the sky, tossing them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
- δράκοντοςdrakontosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
But the earth helped the woman and opened its mouth to swallow up the river that had poured from the dragon’s mouth.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
The beast I saw was like a leopard, with the feet of a bear and the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and his throne and great authority.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?”
- δράκοντιdrakontinoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
- δράκωνdrakonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a dragon
And I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
- δράκοντοςdrakontosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.
- δράκονταdrakontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: dragon
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.