Words the Bible translates as sea monster
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- tanתַּןjackal: the howling wild dog of the wasteland, named almost always in the plural and almost always to say that a place has been emptied of people
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- the great water creature: the monster Pharaoh is addressed as, lying in the Nile, churning it up and fouling his own rivers
- kētosκῆτοςsea monsternot studied yet
- tanninתַּנִּיןa great serpent or dragon: a large, frightening snakelike creature, most often the sea-monster God masters, but also a venomous land serpent.
- livyatanלִוְיָתָןLeviathan: a vast coiling sea-serpent, the legendary chaos-monster of the deep that only God can master
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Every English meaning beginning with S is on its letter page, and the whole index starts at Browse.