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 form (_tanoth_). (Septuagint, [Greek: "drakon"] and [Greek: "strouthos."]) Lam. iv., 3.--Even the In the Hebrew text the word is _sea-monsters_ draw out the _tannin_, evidently an error for breast, they give suck to their _tanim_. The suckling of young, and young ones. The daughter of my association of ostriches, agree with people is become cruel, like this. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") the ostriches in the wilderness. Micah i., 8.--I will make a The wailing cry accords with the wailing like the _dragons_, and view of Gesenius that the jackal is mourning like the owls meant. [ostriches]. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].") We learn from the above comparative view that the _tannin_ is an aquatic animal of large size, and predaceous, clothed with scales, and a fit emblem of the monarchies of Egypt and Assyria. In two places it is possible that some species of serpent is denoted by it. We must suppose, therefore, that in Genesis i. it denotes large crocodilian and perhaps serpentiform reptiles. The _tan_ is evidently a small mammal of the desert.