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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
The
Hebrew
original translated “great whales”
(
Gen. 1:21
21
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:21)
) is used of “serpents” (
Ex. 7:9
9
When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent. (Exodus 7:9)
;
Deut. 32:33
33
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:33)
), and of the “crocodile” (
Ezek. 29:3; 32:2
3
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. (Ezekiel 29:3)
2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. (Ezekiel 32:2)
). The name belongs to
sea
monsters (
Job 7:12
12
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (Job 7:12)
;
Isa. 27:1
1
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isaiah 27:1)
). It is thought that the shark of the Mediterranean is meant (
Jonah 1:17
17
Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. (Jonah 1:17)
;
Matt. 12:40
40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12:40)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
The word
tannin
(
Gen. 1:21
21
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:21)
;
Job 7:12
12
Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (Job 7:12)
;
Ezek. 32:2
2
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. (Ezekiel 32:2)
); and
κῆτος
(
Matt. 12:40
40
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. (Matthew 12:40)
); refer to any
sea
monsters, without defining any particular one. In the case of
Jonah
the
Hebrew
word is
dag
, or
dagah
, a
fish
; it may not have been a whale: sharks have been known to
swallow
men entire, and whatever fish it was that swallowed him, it was a miracle that preserved him alive, and caused him to be safely landed on shore again. It is only by denying the miracle that any difficulty arises. The Hebrew word
tannin
, is also translated in the AV “
dragon
,” “
sea monster
,” and “
serpent
.”
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