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 there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
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And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
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And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
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And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
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And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
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And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
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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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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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