תַּן
tan
“jackal”
Definition
a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
or תַּנִּים; (Ezekiel 29:3), intensive from the same as H8565 (תַּן);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
תַּן appears 26 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Their wine is the venom of serpents,the deadly poison of cobras.
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.
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.
“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.
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.