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In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: 0 Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters. 0Ī sea-monster am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard? 0 0Īnd I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire. Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. But many scholars today suggest these are separate and that tannim should be translated as jackals. Many previous translators viewed these creatures as dragons, too. In each case in Table 1, the verses use the Hebrew word tannin, or its plural form tanninim, which was usually translated as “dragon(s).” In some cases, you might see the translation “serpent” or “monster.” There is also the word tannim (plural of tan, “jackal”), which sounds quite similar to tannin in Hebrew.

To settle this issue of the reality of dragons, let us turn to the Word of Almighty God who knows all things. Moreover, we have descriptions, drawings, and accounts of dragons-not just in handfuls like we have of the dodo, but in massive numbers from all over the world! And many of these descriptions and accounts are very similar to creatures known by a different name: dinosaurs. If we don’t know our history, are we doomed to repeat it? Sadly, in recent times, secular scientists have relegated dragons to myths also.īut unlike the dodo, which is just a particular type of bird, dragons are a large group of reptilian creatures.

They seem to exist only in the old descriptions, accounts, and drawings.

Since then, fossils and other portions of specimens have been identified as dodo. Had it not been for specimens popping up in the recesses of museum collections and finally brought to light, they could have been labeled simply as “myth” for as long as the earth endures! But in the 19th century, at last, there was vindication that the dodo was real and that it had merely gone extinct.

They seemed to exist only in the old descriptions, accounts, and drawings.

And a few years later, scientists began to promote the idea that the dodo was merely a myth. Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons, īut when the dodo went extinct, no one seemed to notice. Drawing by Sir Thomas Herbert of a cockatoo, red hen, and dodo in 1634.