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# תַּנִּין

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8577

**serpent** — used 14 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

serpent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8577/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּנִּין: n.m. serpent, dragon, sea-monster [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8577/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (erron. תַּנִּים) n.m. Ez 29:3 serpent, dragon, sea-monster (NH id. (rare); Arabic تَنِّينٌ, loan-word from Aramaic תַּנִּינָא, ܬܰܢܺܝܢܳܐ Frä123; Ethiopic ተመን );—abs. ת׳ Ex 7:9 +, ים— Ez 29:3; 32:2 (by confusion with pl. of \[תַּן\]); pl. תַּנִּינִם Gn 1:21, etc.;— serpent, Dt 32:33 (venomous), ψ 91:13 (‖ פֶּתֶן), Ex 7:9, 10, 12 (P). dragon, as devourer (sim.) Je 51:34; עֵין הַתּ׳ Ne 2:13, near Jerus. sea- (or river-) monster, Gn 1:21 (P); fig. Jb 7:12 ψ 74:13 (i.e. Egyptians), Is 27:1; 51:9 (‖ רַהַב mythol. personif. of chaos) Ez 29:3; 32:2; called to praise י׳ ψ 148:7 (‖ תְּהֹמוֹת).—Vid. CheEncy. Bib. dragon GunkSchöpfung 69 ff. BartonJAOS xv. 1(1891), 23 f.; personif. of water-spout RSSem i. 161; 2nd ed. 176; cf. Gk. fish-name θύννος LewyFremdw. 15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: monster (4); \[the\] sea monster (2); serpent (2).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.33/#tree)

חֲמַ֥ת תַּנִּינִ֖ם יֵינָ֑ם וְרֹ֥אשׁ פְּתָנִ֖ים אַכְזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* \[is.the\].venom of.serpents wine their and.\[the\] poison of.cobras cruel

*JPS 1917:* Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel poison of asps.

[Psalms 91:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.91.13/#tree)

עַל־שַׁ֣חַל וָפֶ֣תֶן תִּדְרֹ֑ךְ תִּרְמֹ֖ס כְּפִ֣יר וְתַנִּֽין׃

*Word for word:* on a.lion and a.cobra you.will.tread you.will.trample a.young.lion and a.serpent

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; the young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8577.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8577/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).