Nehemiah 2:13
And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
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Dragon
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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,
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δράκων
drákōn · drak'-own
13 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dragon.
Strong's first: Revelation 12:3Strong's last: Revelation 20:2
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tannîyn · tan-neen'
6 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
a marine or land monster, i.e. sea-serpent or jackal
Strong's KJV usage: dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.
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Strong's first: Nehemiah 2:13Strong's last: Ezekiel 29:3
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And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
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dragon
DRAGON, noun [Latin , Gr., G.]
1. A kind of winged serpent, much celebrated in the romances of the middle ages.
2. A fiery, shooting meteor, or imaginary serpent.
Swift, swift, ye dragons of the night! That dawning may bear the ravens eye.
3. A fierce, violent person, male or female; as, this man or woman is a dragon
4. A constellation of the northern hemisphere. [See Draco.]
In Scripture, dragon seems sometimes to signify a large marine fish or serpent, Isaiah 27:1. Where the leviathan is also mentioned; also Psalms 74:13.
Sometimes it seems to signify a venomous land serpent. Psalms 91:13. The dragon shalt thou trample under foot.
It is often used for the devil, who is called the old serpent. Revelations 20:2.
DRAGON, noun A genus of animals, the Draco. They have four legs, a cylindrical tail, and membranaceous wings, radiated like the fins of a flying-fish.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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