Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
dragon
Usage: δράκων, -ο τος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for תַּנִּין ;] a dragon, a mythical monster: figuratively, of Satan, Rev.12:3-17 13:2, 4 13:11 16:13 20:2.† (AS)
Drakon means “dragon” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1404 — gebereth (“mistress”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1404 δράκων (drakon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. drakon (drak'-own) n. 1. a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate) [probably from an alternate form of derkomai "to look"] It has 46 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include serpent. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
drakon (drak'-own) n. 1. a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate) [probably from an alternate form of derkomai "to look"] KJV: dragon
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dragon
Usage: δράκων, -ο τος, ὁ [in LXX chiefly for תַּנִּין ;] a dragon, a mythical monster: figuratively, of Satan, Rev.12:3-17 13:2, 4 13:11 16:13 20:2.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render drakon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1404 (δράκων) appears 33 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
12 indexed usages in New Testament.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
24 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Now if Pharaoh should speak to you, saying, Give us a sign or a wonder, then shalt thou say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy rod and cast it upon the ground before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it shall become a serpent.
And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and they did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
And they cast down each his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.
10 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame: For thy mercy was by them, and healed them.
I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, Than to keep house with a wicked woman.
First 46 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1404.
Now if Pharaoh should speak to you, saying, Give us a sign or a wonder, then shalt thou say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy rod and cast it upon the ground before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it shall become a serpent.
And Moses and Aaron went in before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and they did so, as the Lord commanded them; and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
And they cast down each his rod, and they became serpents, but the rod of Aaron swallowed up their rods.
Their wine is the rage of serpents, And the incurable rage of asps.
The strength of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, And the exulting cry of serpents are quenched.
Am I a sea, or a serpent, That thou hast set a watch over me?
And let him suck the poison of serpents, And let the serpent’s tongue slay him.
And the barriers of heaven fear him, And by a command he has slain the apostate dragon.
And wilt thou hunt a prey for the lions? And satisfy the desires of the serpents?
But wilt thou catch the serpent with a hook, And put a halter about his nose?
Thou didst establish the sea, in thy might, Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.
Thou didst break to pieces the heads of the dragon; Thou didst give him for meat to the Ethiopian nations.
Thou shalt tread on the asp and basilisk: And thou shalt trample on the lion and dragon.
There go the ships; And this dragon whom thou hast made to play in it.
Praise the Lord from the earth, Ye serpents, and all deeps.
In that day God shall bring his holy and great and strong sword upon the dragon, even the serpent that flees, upon the dragon, the crooked serpent: he shall destroy the dragon.
And I will remove the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and make it a dwelling place of dragons; and I will utterly waste the cities of Judah, so that they shall not be inhabited.
Flee ye out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
He has devoured me, he has torn me asunder, airy darkness has come upon me; Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has swallowed me up, as a dragon has he filled his belly with my delicacies.
Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, They give suck to their young, The daughters of my people are incurably cruel, As an ostrich in a desert.
and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against Pharaoh, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers, that says, The rivers are mine, and I made them.
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art become like a lion of the nations, and as the serpent that is in the sea: and thou didst make assaults with thy rivers, and didst disturb the water with thy feet, and didst trample thy rivers.
If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, thence will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from my presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.
Therefore shall she lament and wail, she shall go barefooted, and being naked she shall make lamentation as that of serpents, and mourning as of the daughters of sirens.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
But thy sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame: For thy mercy was by them, and healed them.
I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, Than to keep house with a wicked woman.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1404, grouped by book.
Drakon (Strong's G1404) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dragon". drakon (drak'-own) n. 1. a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate) [probably from an alternate form of derkomai "to look"]
This page currently indexes 46 linked usages for Strong's G1404 across 15 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1404 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as serpent. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 24 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 10 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1404, with linked reader references where each row is available.