8565 - tan

Strong's Concordance

Original word: תַּנִּים
Transliteration: tan
Definition (short): jackals
Definition (full): a monster, a sea-serpent, a jackal

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: from an unused word
Definition: a jackal
NASB Translation: jackals (14).
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From an unused root probably meaning to elongate; a monster (as preternaturally formed), i.e. A sea-serpent (or other huge marine animal); also a jackal (or other hideous land animal) -- dragon, whale. Compare tanniyn.

see HEBREW tanniyn

KJV: I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
NASB: "I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches.
KJV: Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
NASB: Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with the shadow of death.
KJV: And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
NASB: Hyenas will howl in their fortified towers And jackals in their luxurious palaces. Her fateful time also will soon come And her days will not be prolonged.
KJV: And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
NASB: Thorns will come up in its fortified towers, Nettles and thistles in its fortified cities; It will also be a haunt of jackals And an abode of ostriches.
KJV: And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
NASB: The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes.