Isa. li., 9.--Hath cut Rahab and Same as above.
wounded the _dragon_.

Jer. li., 34.--[Nebuchadnezzar] A large predaceous animal.
hath swallowed me up as a (Septuagint, [Greek: "drakon."])
_dragon_.

Ezek. xxix., 3.--Pharaoh, king In the Hebrew _tanim_ appears by
of Egypt, the great _dragon_ mistake for _tannin_. This is
that lieth in the rivers. clearly the crocodile of the Nile.
Verses 4 and 5 show that it is a
large aquatic animal with _scales_.
(Septuagint, [Greek: "drakon."])

2. TAN.

Psa. xliv., 19.--Thou hast sore Some understand this of shipwreck;
broken us in the place of but, more probably, the
_dragons_. place of dragons is the desert.
(Septuagint, [Greek: "kakosis."])

Isa. xxxiv., 13.--[Bozrah in An animal inhabiting ruins, and
Idumea] shall be a habitation of associated with the ostrich.
_dragons_ and a court of owls [or (Septuagint, [Greek: "seiren."])
ostriches].

Isa. xliii., 20.--The wild Evidently an animal of the dry
beasts shall honor me, deserts.
the _dragons_ and the ostriches, (Septuagint, [Greek: "seiren."])
because I give water in the
wilderness.

Isa. xiii., 22.--Dragons in Represented as inhabiting the
their pleasant palaces. ruins of Babylon, and associated
with wild beasts of the desert.
(Septuagint, [Greek: "xchinos."])

Isa. xxxv., 7.--And the parched An animal making its lair or nest
ground shall become a pool, and in dry, parched places.
the thirsty land springs of (Septuagint, [Greek: "hornis."])
water; in the habitation of
_dragons_, where each lay, shall
be grass with reeds and rushes.

Job xxx., 29.--I am a brother of The association indicates an animal
_dragons_ and a companion of of the desert, and the context
ostriches. that its cry is mournful.
(Septuagint, [Greek: "seiren."])

Jer. ix., 11; x., 22.--I will Same as above. See also Jeremiah
make Jerusalem heaps, a den of xlix., 33; li., 37; and Mal. i., 3,
_dragons_. where the word is in the female