Lexicon drakón: a dragon (a mythical monster) Original Word: δράκων, οντος, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: drakón Phonetic Spelling: (drak'-own) Short Definition: a dragon or huge serpent Definition: a dragon or huge serpent; met: Satan. HELPS word-Studies 1404 drákōn (from derkomai, "to see," the root of the English term, "dragon") – properly "seeing one," used of mythical dragons (huge serpents) seeing their prey from far away; (figuratively) Satan (Rev 12:7,9) exercising his subtle (indirect) impact on heathen governments (powers) – i.e. accomplishing his hellish agenda from "behind the scenes." [The ancient Greeks classified a "dragon" (1404 /drákōn) as a type of serpent. 1404 /drákōn ("a dragon") was believed to have incredible insight, able to spot prey in any hiding place.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an alt. form of derkomai (to look) Definitiona dragon (a mythical monster) NASB Translationdragon (13).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1404: δράκωνδράκων, δράκοντος, ὁ (apparently from δέρκομαι, 2 aorist ἔδρακον; hence, δράκων, properly, equivalent to ὀξύ βλέπων ( Etym. Magn. 286, 7; cf. Curtius, § 13)); the Sept. chiefly for תָּנִּין; a dragon, a great serpent, a fabulous animal (so as early as Homer, Iliad 2, 308f, etc.). From it, after Genesis 3:1ff, is derived the figurative description of the devil in Revelation 12:3-17; Revelation 13:2, 4, 11; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 20:2. (Cf. Baudissin, Studien zur semitisch. Religionsgesch. vol. i. (iv. 4), p. 281ff.)
Strong's dragon. Probably from an alternate form of derkomai (to look); a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate) -- dragon. |
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