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תַּן (tan) means “jackal” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

תַּן Hebrew · H8577 28 tagged occurrences in 28 verses

Pronunciation guide: tan-neen' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H8577A

תַּן · tan · jackal

jackal Also means: tan.nah (תַּנָּה "dragon" H8568)

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TBESH · H8577B

תַּנִּין · tan.nin · Dragon

This name means dragon, serpent, sea monster

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TBESH · H8577M

תַּנִּין · tan.nin · serpent: snake

1) dragon, serpent, sea monster 1a) dragon or dinosaur 1b) sea or river monster 1c) serpent, venomous snake Also means: tan.nin (תַּנִּין ": monster" H8577N)

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TBESH · H8577N

תַּנִּין · tan.nin · serpent: monster

1) dragon, serpent, sea monster 1a) dragon or dinosaur 1b) sea or river monster 1c) serpent, venomous snake

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or תַּנִּים; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565 (תַּן); a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal

KJV glosses: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.

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How translators render H8577

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
for jackals 5
a serpent 3
of jackals 2
the dragon 2
and jackals 1
and serpent 1
are like a monster 1
great sea creatures 1
jackals 1
like a jackal 1
like a monster 1
like jackals 1
monster 1
of serpents 1
of the dragons 1
of the serpent 1
sea creatures 1
the jackals 1
the monster of the deep 1
where jackals 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
of dragons 6
the dragon 3
for dragons 2
and dragons 1
and it became a serpent 1
and the dragon 1
and they became serpents 1
as a whale 1
dragon 1
even the sea monsters 1
it shall become a serpent 1
like a dragon 1
like dragons 1
like the dragons 1
me the dragons 1
of the dragons 1
or a whale 1
to dragons 1
whales 1
ye dragons 1

Verses containing H8577

Page 1 of 1. 28 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 1:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

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  2. Exodus 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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  3. Exodus 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  4. Exodus 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.

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  5. Deuteronomy 32:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

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  6. Nehemiah 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  7. Job 7:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

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  8. Job 30:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

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  9. Psalms 44:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

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    Source alternate reference: 44.20

  10. Psalms 74:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You divided the sea by Your strength; You smashed the heads of the dragons of the sea;

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  11. Psalms 91:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.

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  12. Psalms 148:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Praise the LORD from the earth, all great sea creatures and ocean depths,

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  13. Isaiah 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  14. Isaiah 27:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  15. Isaiah 34:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

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  16. Isaiah 35:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  17. Isaiah 43:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  18. Isaiah 51:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

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  19. Jeremiah 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.”

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    Source alternate reference: 9.10

  20. Jeremiah 10:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Listen! The sound of a report is coming—a great commotion from the land to the north. It will make the cities of Judah a desolation, a haunt for jackals.

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  21. Jeremiah 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”

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  22. Jeremiah 49:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

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  23. Jeremiah 51:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

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  24. Jeremiah 51:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.

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  25. Lamentations 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like an ostrich in the wilderness.

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  26. Ezekiel 29:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’

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  27. Micah 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  28. Malachi 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”

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