Dragon
* Revelation 13:4 "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"
The Dragon
The dragon in the Bible is said to be a metaphor for Satan and the forces of evil, representing chaos instead of order, rebellion instead of obedience, and the ultimate enemy of God and in opposition to the "Will of God".
This symbolism may extend to represent other legal entities and institutions that are in opposition to, in obstruction of, just interfere with, or deceive people about the true Will of God, The Way.
This could include their wicked rulers, corrupt magistrates, and or the vast buraucracy of their priesthood or even collective of We the People.
If a "We the People" really want no kings, “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution… the truth is that the vast bureaucracy now runs this country, irrespective of what party is in power.” Justice William O. Douglas, in his book Points of Rebellion, 1969 (page 95, page 54). It is that "vast bureaucracy" that is draining the economy and life from society and until that "vast bureaucracy" is sufficiently reduced the "Dragon lives". Until then the economy and society is going to collapse and die.
The hidden dragon
The dragon is consistently portrayed as the adversary which is the meaning of the word Satan who seeks to deceive, oppress, and destroy.
The words Dragons
Tanniyn
The Hebrew word תַּנִּין tanniyn has the Strong's number 8577 and is said to consist of the Hebrew letters TavNunYodNun is translated dragon near 21 times.[1] This base word "תַּנִּין (tanniyn) denotes large, formidable creatures—sea monsters, serpents, dragons, and sometimes land beasts. The word gathers images of power, mystery, and danger, and Scripture employs it both literally (giant aquatic animals) and figuratively (agents or symbols of evil and national oppression)."
Tannin or Tan
Another word tannin given the Strong's number 8565 is translated dragon some 13 times.[2] but never appears as just the letters תַּן TavNun which is said to be translated jackal in some scriptures.
While 8565, תַּן (tan)[2], designates the jackal it is the Hebrew letters לְתַנִּ֑ים LamedTavNunYodMem or lə-ṯan-nîm that are together in the verse and sometimes translated jackal in Job 30:29.[3]
The form תַּן (tan) itself does not occur as an independent word in the preserved Masoretic text, but it stands behind the collective and plural usages that appear frequently under related spellings (for example, tannîm, tannîn).
Because Scripture often treats the jackal collectively, the conceptual field of 8565 must be traced through those occurrences.
Tannah
Tannah 08568 הנָתַּ (tan-naw)[4] is said by some to be the feminine of 08565; n m; [BDB-1072a] [{See TWOT on 2528 @@ "2528b" }] AV-dragon 1; 1
- 1) habitations, jackals, (TWOT) dragon, (TWOT) sea monster
- 1a) meaning uncertain
Mystery Dragon
Modern Christian teachings sometimes use the chameleon to describe the negative spiritual trait of hypocrisy. The dragon of the Bible depends on hypocracy for its deception and is often associated with the stealth of a serpent as a symbol of evil.
Like mystery Babylon it will pretend to be the bride of Christ, the Church, while playing the Harlot and riding the back of a beast that devours the people.
The dragon will fill "his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out."[5]
In Revelation 13:4 we are told, "And they worshipped[6] the dragon which gave[7] power[8] unto the beast: and they worshipped[6] the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war[9] with him?"
Who can drain the swamp without drying up the mire?
Who speaks like a dragon today that can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of man?
Dragon in the First
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales <הַתַּנִּינִ֖ם 08577>[10], and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good.
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, [and] it shall become a serpent <08577>.
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 his servants, and it became a serpent <08577>.
Exodus 7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents <08577>: but Aaron s rod swallowed up their rods.
Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine [is] the poison of dragons <08577>, and the cruel venom of asps.
Nehemiah 2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon <08577> well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Job 7:12 [Am] I a sea, or a whale <08577>, that thou settest a watch over me?
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons <08565[2] כַּתַּנִּ֣ים>,[11] and a companion to owls.
Psalms 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons <08577> in the waters.
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 Praise the LORD from the earth, ye dragons <08577>, and all deeps:
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 serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
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 Rahab, [and] wounded the dragon?
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 dragon כַּתַּנִּ֔ין, he hath filled his belly with my delicates מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י, he hath cast me out.
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 rivers, which hath said, My river [is] mine own, and I have made [it] for myself.
Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale <08577> in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Dragon in the New
Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
Revelation 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man [child].
Revelation 12:16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Revelation 13:2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
Revelation 13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
Revelation 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Revelation 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs [come] out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
- ↑ 08577 תַּנִּין TavNunYodNun tanniyn [tan-neen’] orתנים tanniym (#Eze 29:3) [tan-neem’]intensive from the same as 08565; n m; [BDB-1072b] {See TWOT on 2528 @@ "2528b"} AV-dragon 21, serpent 3, whale 3, sea monster 1; 28
- 1) dragon, whale, sea monster, serpent
- 1a) dragon or dinosaur, maybe the extinct dinosaur the plesiosaurus
- 1b) sea or river monster
- 1c) serpent, venomous snake
- 1) dragon, whale, sea monster, serpent
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 08565 תַּן tan [tan] from an unused root probably meaning to elongate; n m; [BDB-1072a] [{See TWOT on 2528 @@ "2528a" }] AV-whale 1; 1
- 1) jackal
- Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale <08565 כַּתַּנִּ֣ים> in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
TavNunYodNun "תַּנִּין (tannin) denotes large, formidable creatures—sea monsters, serpents, dragons, and sometimes land beasts. The word gathers images of power, mystery, and danger, and Scripture employs it both literally (giant aquatic animals) and figuratively (agents or symbols of evil and national oppression)."
- ↑ Job 30:29 "I am a brother to dragons <08565 כַּתַּנִּ֣ים>,(Some give it the Strong's number 08577) and a companion to owls(or ostriches."
- ↑ 08568 תַּנָה tannah tan-naw’ probably fem. of 08565; n m; [BDB-1072a] {See TWOT on 2528 @@ "2528b" } AV-dragon 1; 1
- 1) habitations, jackals, (TWOT) dragon, (TWOT) sea monster
- 1a) meaning uncertain
- 1) habitations, jackals, (TWOT) dragon, (TWOT) sea monster
- ↑ 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 dragon כַּתַּנִּ֔ין, he hath filled his belly with my delicates מֵֽעֲדָנָ֑י, he hath cast me out." Revelation 17:16-18; Revelation 18:6-8; Revelation 18:20-24; Revelation 19:1-3
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 4352 ~προσκυνέω~ proskuneo \@pros-koo-neh’-o\@ from 4314 and a probable derivative of 2965 (meaning to kiss, like a dog licking his master’s hand); TDNT-6:758,948; {See TDNT 670} v AV-worship 60; 60
- 1) to kiss the hand to (towards) one, in token of reverence
- 2) among the Orientals, esp. the Persians, to fall upon the knees and touch the ground with the forehead as an expression of profound reverence
- 3) in the NT by kneeling or prostration to do homage (to one) or make obeisance, whether in order to express respect or to make supplication
- 3a) used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank
- 3a1) to the Jewish high priests
- 3a2) to God
- 3a3) to Christ
- 3a4) to heavenly beings
- 3a5) to demons
- 3a) used of homage shown to men and beings of superior rank
- ↑ 1325 ~δίδωμι~ didomi \@did’-o-mee\@ a prolonged form of a primary verb (which is used as an alternate in most of the tenses); TDNT-2:166,166; {See TDNT 191} v AV-give 365, grant 10, put 5, show 4, deliver 2, make 2, misc 25; 413
- 1) to give
- 2) to give something to someone
- 2a) of one’s own accord to give one something, to his advantage
- 2a1) to bestow a gift
- 2b) to grant, give to one asking, let have
- 2c) to supply, furnish, necessary things
- 2d) to give over, deliver
- 2d1) to reach out, extend, present
- 2d2) of a writing
- 2d3) to give over to one’s care, intrust, commit
- 2d3a) something to be administered
- 2d3b) to give or commit to some one something to be religiously observed
- 2e) to give what is due or obligatory, to pay: wages or reward
- 2f) to furnish, endue
- 2a) of one’s own accord to give one something, to his advantage
- 3) to give
- 3a) to cause, profuse, give forth from one’s self
- 3a1) to give, hand out lots
- 3b) to appoint to an office
- 3c) to cause to come forth, i.e. as the sea, death and Hell are said to give up the dead who have been engulfed or received by them
- 3d) to give one to someone as his own
- 3d1) as an object of his saving care
- 3d2) to give one to someone, to follow him as a leader and master
- 3d3) to give one to someone to care for his interests
- 3d4) to give one to someone to whom he already belonged, to return
- 3a) to cause, profuse, give forth from one’s self
- 4) to grant or permit one
- 4a) to commission
- For Synonyms see entry 5836 See also 3860 "to give into the hands (of another)", 3862 ordinances "the surrender of cities"
- ↑ 1849 ~ἐξουσία~ exousia \@ex-oo-see’-ah\@ from 1832 (in the sense of ability); n f AV-power 69, authority 29, right 2, liberty 1, jurisdiction 1, strength 1; 103 See Romans 13
- 1) power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
- 1a) leave or permission
- 2) physical and mental power
- 2a) the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises
- 3) the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)
- 4) the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)
- 4a) universally
- 4a1) authority over mankind
- 4b) specifically
- 4b1) the power of judicial decisions
- 4b2) of authority to manage domestic affairs
- 4c) metonymically
- 4c1) a thing subject to authority or rule
- 4c1a) jurisdiction
- 4c2) one who possesses authority
- 4c2a) a ruler, a human magistrate
- 4c2b) the leading and more powerful among created beings superior to man, spiritual potentates
- 4c1) a thing subject to authority or rule
- 4d) a sign of the husband’s authority over his wife
- 4d1) the veil with which propriety required a women to cover herself
- 4e) the sign of regal authority, a crown
- 4a) universally
- For Synonyms see entry 5820
- 1) power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases
- ↑ Making war
- Revelation 11:7 "And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them."
- Revelation 12:17 "And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ."
- Revelation 13:4 "And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"
- Revelation 13:7 "And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations."
- Revelation 17:14 "These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful."
- Revelation 19:11 "And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."
- Revelation 19:19 "And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army."
- Deuteronomy 20:12 "And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:"
- 1 Samuel 28:15 "And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do."
- Proverbs 20:18 "[Every] purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war."
- Isaiah 37:9 "And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard [it], he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,"
- Luke 14:31 "Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?"
- ↑ tannin תַּנִּין TavNunYodNun [tan-neen’] תַּנִּין. Tannin "denotes large, formidable creatures—sea monsters, serpents, dragons, and sometimes land beasts. The word gathers images of power, mystery, and danger, and Scripture employs it both literally (giant aquatic animals) and figuratively (agents or symbols of evil and national oppression)." 08578. tinyan Lexical Summary tinyan: Second, duplicate, repetition Original Word: תִּנְיָן
- ↑ Sometimes given the strongs number 08577