Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8577
תַּנִּין
tannintan-neen'
jackal; Dragon; serpent: snake; serpent: monster
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tannîyn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8577is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 25spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8577
a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
The King James renders it: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
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
tannin is rendered "jackal; Dragon; serpent: snake; serpent: monster". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Six of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "jackal".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-five different ways.
The first use
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: jackal, and Dragon, and serpent: snake, and serpent: monster.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| jackalStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 1:21So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves… |
| DragonStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| serpent: snakeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| serpent: monsterStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- jackals9
- into a serpent2
- like the jackals2
- sea monster2
- the sea monster2
- and a serpent1
- and jackals1
- Dragons1
- for jackals of1
- into serpents1
- like the sea monster1
- O sea monsters1
and 4 more, 28 uses in all
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַּנּוּר | tannur | (Tower of) the Ovens | Uses15 |
| תַּנְחוּם | tanchum | consolation | Uses5 |
| תַּנְשֶׁמֶת | tanshemeth | chameleon | Uses3 |
| תַּנָּה | tannah | dragon | Usesnot recorded |
The words it stands beside
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
25 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
- לְתַנִּֽין׃2
- תַּנִּ֑ים2
- תַּנִּ֛ים2
- הַתַּנִּים֙1
- הַתַּנִּ֔ין1
- הַתַּנִּ֖ין1
- הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם1
- וְתַנִּ֖ים1
- וְתַנִּֽין׃1
- כַּתַּנִּ֑ים1
- כַּתַּנִּ֔ים1
- כַּתַּנִּ֔ין1
and 13 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural12HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural2HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular2HR/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural2HRd/Ncmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- proper noun (a name)1HNpl
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
one use
So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- הַתַּנִּינִ֖םhataninimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the sea monsters
Exodus
three uses
“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
- לְתַנִּֽין׃letaninpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a serpent
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
- לְתַנִּֽין׃letaninpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: into a serpent
Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
- לְתַנִּינִ֑םletaninimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: into serpents
Deuteronomy
one use
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- תַּנִּינִ֖םtaninimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: serpents
Nehemiah
one use
So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.
- הַתַּנִּ֔יןhataninproper noun (a name)tagged: Dragons
Job
two uses
Psalms
four uses
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- תַּנִּ֑יםtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;
- תַ֝נִּינִ֗יםtaninimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sea monsters
You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.
- וְתַנִּֽין׃vetaninconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a serpent
Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,
- תַּ֝נִּינִ֗יםtaninimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: O sea monsters
Isaiah
six uses
Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
- וְתַנִּ֖יםvetanimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and jackals
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
- הַתַּנִּ֖יןhataninthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sea monster
Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- תַנִּ֔יםtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
- תַנִּים֙tanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
The beasts of the field will honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I provide water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My chosen people.
- תַּנִּ֖יםtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
- תַּנִּֽין׃taninnoun · masculine singulartagged: sea monster
Jeremiah
six uses
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- תַּנִּ֑יםtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
Listen! The sound of a report is coming— a great commotion from the land to the north. The cities of Judah will be made a desolation, a haunt for jackals.
- תַּנִּֽים׃ סtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
- כַּתַּנִּ֑יםkatanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the jackals
“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
- תַּנִּ֛יםtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
- כַּתַּנִּ֔יןkataninpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the sea monster
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
- תַּנִּ֛יםtanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
Lamentations
one use
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.
- תַּנִּים֙taninnoun · masculine pluraltagged: jackals
Ezekiel
one use
Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’
- הַתַּנִּים֙hatanimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sea monster
Micah
one use
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- כַּתַּנִּ֔יםkatanimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the jackals
Malachi
one use
but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- לְתַנּ֥וֹתletanotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: for jackals of
The letters
Gematria 510· 1,160 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.