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tannin, δράκων. It may signify any great serpent or sea monster, symbolical of a huge destructive creature. Nations doomed to destruction and desolation, including Jerusalem, are said to become habitations of dragons. Isa. 34: 13; Isa. 35: 7; Jer. 9: 11; Jer. 10: 22; Jer. 51: 37. Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is called the great dragon. Ezek. 29: 3. As one of God's creatures the dragon is called upon to praise Jehovah. Ps. 148: 7. In the N.T. the dragon is a type of Satan and those energised by him. In Rev. 12: 3 the "great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns," is symbolical of Satan's power in the form of the Roman empire: it endeavoured, in the person of Herod, to destroy Christ when born. In Rev. 13: 2, 4 it is Satan who gives the resuscitated Roman empire in a future day its throne and great authority. In Rev. 13: 11 the Antichrist, who has two horns like a lamb, speaks as a dragon. In Rev. 16: 13 it is Satan, and in Rev. 20: 2 he is described as "that old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan."