Lexicon :: Strong's G1404 - drakōn
δράκων
Transliteration
drakōn
(Key)
Pronunciation
drak'-own
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from an alternate form of derkomai (to look)
Dictionary Aids
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TDNT Reference: 2:281,186
KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's G1404 in the following manner: dragon (13x).
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a dragon, a great serpent, a name for Satan
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
δράκων drákōn, drak'-own; probably from an alternate form of δέρκομαι dérkomai (to look); a fabulous kind
of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate):—dragon.
STRONGS G1404:
δράκων, -οντος, ὁ, (apparently from δέρκομαι, 2 aorist ἔδρακον; hence, δράκων, properly, equivalent to ὀξὺ βλέπων [ 286, 7; cf. Curtius, § 13]); Sept. chiefly for תָּנִּין; a dragon, a great serpent, a fabulous animal (so as early as Homer, Iliad 2, 308f, etc.). From it, after
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