Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8565
תַּן
tantan
dragon
1 use in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8565is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8565
a monster (as preternaturally formed), i.e. a sea-serpent (or other huge marine animal); also a jackal (or other hideous land animal)
The King James renders it: dragon, whale. Compare H8577 (תַּנִּין).
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
tan is rendered "dragon". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezekiel 32:2“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.’
The first use
“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.’
Ezekiel 32:2כַּתַּנִּ֣ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like the sea monster1
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 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- כַּתַּנִּ֣ים1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Ezekiel
one use
“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.’
- כַּתַּנִּ֣יםkatanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sea monster
The letters
Gematria 450· 1,100 mispar gadol
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.