HebrewH8577Noun (Masculine)

תַּן

tan

26Occurrences
H8577Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal

or תַּנִּים; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565 (תַּן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
jackal Also means: tan.nah (*תַּנָּה *"dragon" H8568)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

תַּן appears 26 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
6
Jeremiah
5
Exodus
3
Psalms
3
Job
2
Deuteronomy
1
Ezk
1
Genesis
1

Key Passages

Deuteronomy 32:33BSB

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

Genesis 1:21BSB

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.

Isaiah 43:20BSB

The beasts of the field will honor Me,the jackals and the ostriches,because I provide water in the wildernessand rivers in the desert,to give drink to My chosen people.

Jeremiah 51:34BSB

“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 delicaciesand vomited me out.

Malachi 1:3BSB

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

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.