Exod. vii., 9.--Take thy rod and Probably a serpent, though perhaps cast it before Pharaoh, and it a crocodile. shall become a _serpent_. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") Deut. xxxii., 33.--Their vine is Probably a species of serpent. the poison of _dragons_. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") Job vii., 12.--Am I a sea, or a Michaelis and others think, _whale_, that thou settest a probably correctly, that the Nile watch over me. and the crocodile, both objects of vigilance to the Egyptians, are intended. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") Psa. lxxiv., 14.--Thou didst Evidently refers to the destruction divide the sea by thy strength. of the Egyptians in the Red Thou breakest the heads of the Sea, under emblem of the crocodile. _dragons_ in the waters. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") Psa. xci., 13.--The young lion The association shows that a and the _dragon_ thou shalt powerful carnivorous animal is trample under foot. meant. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") Psa. cxlviii., 7.--Praise the Evidently an aquatic creature. Lord, ye _dragons_ and all deeps. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") Isa. xxvii., 1.--He shall slay A large predaceous aquatic animal the _dragon_ in the midst of the (the crocodile), used here as sea [river]. an emblem of Egypt. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") 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].