sē ́mon-stẽr: Genesis 1:21 (תּנּינם, tannīnīm), “sea monsters,” the King James Version “whales,” Septuagint (τὰ κήτη, tá kḗtē), “sea-monsters,” “huge fish,” or “whales.” Job 7:12 (תּנּין, tannīn), “sea-monster” the King James Version “whale,” the Septuagint δράκων, drákōn, “dragon.” Psalms 74:13 (תּנּינים, tannīnīm), the American Standard Revised Version and the English Revised Version margin. “sea-monsters,” the King James Version and the English Revised Version “dragons,” the King James Version margin “whales” Septuagint δράκοντες, drákontes, “dragons” Psalms 148:7 (תּנּינים, tannīnīm), “sea-monsters” the King James Version and the English Revised Version “dragons,” the English Revised Version margin “sea-monsters” or “water-spouts,” Septuagint drakontes, “dragons.” Lamentations 4:3 (תּנּין, tannīn) “jackals,” the King James Version “sea monsters” the King James Version margin “sea calves,” Septuagint drakontes. Matthew 12:40 (referring to Jonah) (κῆτος, kḗtos), English Versions of the Bible “whale,” the Revised Version margin “sea-monster.” In the Apocrypha, the Revised Version changes the King James Version “whale (kētos) into “sea-monster” in Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 43:25 but not in Song of Three Children verse 57. See DRAGON; JACKAL; WHALE.
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Author: International Std. Bible Encyclopedia
Keywords: Sea-Monster, Whale, Dragon
Source: James Orr (editor), The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 5 volume set.
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