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Strong's #8577 - תַּנִּים
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- dragon, serpent, sea monster
- dragon or dinosaur
- sea or river monster
- serpent, venomous snake
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1497) nt (תנ TN) AC: Hire CO: Gift AB: ?
A) nt (תנ TN) AC: ? CO: ? AB: ?
Nm ) nt (תנ TN) - Tan: A large unknown sea animal. KJV (1): whale - Strongs: H8565 (תַּן)
Nf1) ent (תנה TNH) - Tanah: A large unknown sea animal. KJV (1): dragon - Strongs: H8568 (תַּנָּה)
sm) nint (תנינ TNYN) - Taniyn: A large unknown sea animal. [df: Mynt] KJV (28): dragon, serpent, whale, monster - Strongs: H8577 (תַּנִּים)
C) nta (אתנ ATN) AC: ? CO: Gift AB: ?
Nf1 ) enta (אתנה ATNH) - Gift: KJV (1): reward - Strongs: H866 (אֶתְנָה)
cf) nfta (אתונ ATWN) - Donkey: As used as a gift. KJV (34): ass - Strongs: H860 (אָתוֹן)
em) ntia (איתנ AYTN) - Strong: [Unknown connection to root;] KJV (13): strong, mighty, strength, hard, rough - Strongs: H386 (אֵתָן)
mm) nnta (אתננ ATNN) - Price: What is brought to a harlot as a gift. KJV (11): hire, reward - Strongs: H868 (אֶתְנָן)
H) ent (תנה TNH) AC: Hire CO: ? AB: ?
V) ent (תנה TNH) - I. Hire:To give a gift to a harlot. II. Recount:To retell or re-enact a previous incident. [Unknown connection to root] KJV (4): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Piel) hire, lament, rehearse - Strongs: H8566 (תָּנָה), H8567 (תָּנָה)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 serpent, Deuteronomy 32:33 (venomous), Psalm 91:13 ("" מֶּתֶן), Exodus 7:9,10,12 (P).
2 dragon, as devourer (simile) Jeremiah 51:34; ׳עֵין הַתּ Nehemiah 2:13, near Jerusalem
3 sea- (or river-) monster, Genesis 1:21 (P); figurative Job 7:12; Psalm 74:13 (i.e. Egyptains), Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 51:9 ("" רַהַב, mythological personification of chaos); in summons to praise ׳י Psalm 148:7 ("" תְּהֹמוֺת). — See Che Ency. Bib. DRAGON Gunk Seh-pfung 69 ff. Barton JAOS xv. 1 (1891). 23f.; personified of water-spout RS Semitic i. 161; 2nd ed. 176; compare Greek fish-name θύννος Lewy Fremdw. 15.
II. תנן (√ of following; apparently "" נתן; compare also I. תנה).
תַּנִּים sing. Ezekiel 29:3, a great serpent, a sea monster, i.q. הַּנִּין (which is the reading of many copies), from which this reading has been corrupted, either by the writer, or by copyists who were familiar with the plur. תַּנִּים, but in this neglected the etymology.