dragons in Genesis?

[Joshua-777]

Genesis 1:21 kjv And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21 nkjv So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

H8577

תּנּים תּנּין

tannîyn tannîym

tan-neen', tan-neem'

(The second form used in Eze_29:3); intensive from the same as H8565; a marine or land monster, that is, sea serpent or jackal: - dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.

What I find funny, is that in the hebrew this verse means dragon, sea monster, serpent, or whales so by the translation it is accurate, but I noticed this word means dragon, which in older cultures, dragon was used to reference dinosaurs, so just wondering could it be that the actual hebrew means dragon? I've noticed you find this word used in various places in the bible,

exo 4:3 And He said,

[Natt]

I've heard this before

[Guest PTE]

Genesis 1:21 kjv And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21 nkjv So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

H8577

תּנּים תּנּין

tannîyn tannîym

tan-neen', tan-neem'

(The second form used in Eze_29:3); intensive from the same as H8565; a marine or land monster, that is, sea serpent or jackal: - dragon, sea-monster, serpent, whale.

What I find funny, is that in the hebrew this verse means dragon, sea monster, serpent, or whales so by the translation it is accurate, but I noticed this word means dragon, which in older cultures, dragon was used to reference dinosaurs, so just wondering could it be that the actual hebrew means dragon? I've noticed you find this word used in various places in the bible,

exo 4:3 And He said,

[SueZQ]

Thanks for sharing Josh!

[Akabu]

I remember those verses. I drove my mom nuts with them when I was 13 to 15 and wanted to be a paleontologist.

[Joshua-777]

lol Job 40, that was one of my fav chapters growing up.

[Observer of dreams]

Its possible. I don't know because I didn't write the book

peace-Jason

[secondeve]

Well, given that mythology tends to contain a lot of dinosauric creatures - but that the fossil record in no way supports the idea that man and dinosaurs lived together - my theory is that people dug up the bones and skeletons of dead dinos and thought, perhaps fearfully, that these creatures must still exist somewhere.

Edited December 21, 2006 by secondeve

[apothanein kerdos]

Well, given that mythology tends to contain a lot of dinosauric creatures - but that the fossil record in no way supports the idea that man and dinosaurs lived together - my theory is that people dug up the bones and skeletons of dead dinos and thought, perhaps fearfully, that these creatures must still exist somewhere.

This is certainly the most logical explanation.

The Bible is referring to whales, or at least the giant sea creatures that roamed/roam the ocean.

[Guest Natures Girl]

Dragons (as literature describes them) do not and never have existed. They are product of ignorance and imagination. If you were a primative (yes the dark ages were also primative) mind and found a dinosaur fossil you'd naturally make up a story to explain it... like the genesis account. "mommy how did the world begin..." Genesis; "mommy why do people speak different languages..." the tower of babel...