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  2. Rahab (term) - Wikipedia

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    In medieval Jewish folklore, Rahab is a mythical sea monster, a dragon of the waters, the "demonic angel of the sea". Rahab represents the primordial abyss, the water-dragon of darkness and chaos, comparable to Leviathan and Tiamat. Rahab later became a particular demon, inhabitant of the sea, especially associated with the Red Sea. [13]

  3. Tannin (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    The Tannin (Dragon), by al-Qazwini (1203–1283).. Tannin (Hebrew: תַּנִּין tannīn; Syriac: ܬܢܝܢܐ tannīnā plural: tannīnē; Arabic: التنين tinnīn, ultimately from Akkadian 𒆗𒉌𒈾 dannina) or Tunnanu (Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎐𐎐 tnn, likely vocalized tunnanu [1]) was a sea monster in Canaanite and Hebrew mythology used as a symbol of chaos and evil.

  4. Serpents in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The tannin, a dragon monster, also occurs throughout the Hebrew Bible. In the Book of Exodus, the staves of Moses and Aaron are turned into serpents, a nāḥāš for Moses, a tannin for Aaron. In the New Testament, the Book of Revelation makes use of ancient serpent and the Dragon several times to identify Satan or the Devil [3] (Revelation 12 ...

  5. Bel and the Dragon - Wikipedia

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    The narrative of Bel and the Dragon is incorporated as chapter 14 of the extended Book of Daniel. The original Septuagint text in Greek survives in a single manuscript, Codex Chisianus , while the standard text is due to Theodotion , the 2nd-century AD revisor.

  6. Leviathan - Wikipedia

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    Although the Old Testament nowhere identifies the leviathan with the devil, the seven-headed dragon in the Book of Revelation is. [41] By this the battle between God and the primordial chaos monsters shifts to a battle between God and the devil. [ 42 ]

  7. Animals in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Syrian and Egyptian hives are made of a mash of clay and straw for coolness. In Old Testament times, honey was an article of export (Genesis 43:11; Ezekiel 27:17). Bees are spoken of in Bible as a term of comparison for a numerous army relentlessly harassing their enemies. Debôrah, the Hebrew name for bee, was a favourite name for women.

  8. Revelation 12 - Wikipedia

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    The word rendered "dragon" - Ancient Greek: δράκων - occurs 9 times (and 4 more in derivative forms) [17] in the New Testament, only in the Book of Revelation, where it is uniformly rendered as here: "dragon". [14] The word for diadem (Greek: διάδημα) occurs only three times in the New Testament, always in the Book of Revelation.

  9. Christian mythology - Wikipedia

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    Christian mythology incorporates the Old Testament's prophecies of a future resurrection of the dead. Like the Hebrew prophet Daniel (e.g., Daniel 12:2), the Christian Book of Revelation (among other New Testament scriptures) describes the resurrection: "The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in ...