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Strong's #1404 - δράκων
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- a dragon, a great serpent, a name for Satan
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δράκων [ ᾰ], οντος, o(: (prob. from δέρκομαι, δρᾰκεῖν, cf. Porph. Abst. 3.8): —
I dragon, serpent, Il. 11.39, al.; interchangeable with ὄφις, 12.202, 208, cf. Hes. Th. 322, 825, Pi. N. 1.40, A. Th. 292 (lyr.); ἀετὸς καὶ δ. πολέμια Arist. HA 609a4; perh. a water-snake, ib. 602b25.
II the constellation Draco, Arat. 46, al., Man. 2.69.
III
1. a sea-fish, the great weever, Epich. 60, Arist. HA 598a11, Hp. Vict. 2.48. = κηρύκειον, prob. a wand with a serpent coiled round it, S. Fr. 700 (cf. 701).
2. serpent-shaped bracelet or necklace, Luc. Am. 41.
3. a noose or crossed bandage for the ankle, Heraclas ap. Orib. 48.5.1.
4. dragon-standard, Lib. Or. 1.144, Them. Or. 18.219a, cf. Or. 1.2a: hence, corps of 1,000 men in the Parthian army, Luc. Hist. Conscr. 29.
δράκων, δράκοντος, ὁ (apparently from δέρκομαι, 2 aorist ἔδρακον; hence, δράκων, properly, equivalent to ὀξύ βλέπων (Etym. Magn. 286, 7; cf. Curtius, § 13)); the Sept. chiefly for תָּנִּין; a dragon, a great serpent, a fabulous animal (so as early as Homer, Iliad 2, 308f, etc.). From it, after Genesis 3:1ff, is derived the figurative description of the devil in Revelation 12:3-17; Revelation 13:2, 4, 11; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 20:2. (Cf. Baudissin, Studien zur semitisch. Religionsgesch. vol. i. (iv. 4), p. 281ff.)
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δράκων , -ο τος , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H8577;]
a dragon, a mythical monster: fig., of Satan, Revelation 12:3-17; Revelation 13:2; Revelation 13:4; Revelation 13:11; Revelation 16:13; Revelation 20:2.†
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δράκων is common in the magic papyri, e.g. P Leid Wii. 5 (ii/iii A.D.) δράκοντα δάκνοντα τὴ (l. τὴν) οὐράν, so x. 28, ib. V iii. 16 (iii/iv A.D.) δράκων εἶ πτεροειδής, P Lond 121.586 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 102) ὁ δράκων οὐροβόρος, ib..781, and PSI I. 28.4 (? iii/iv A.D.), 29.9 (? iv/A.D.). In P Oxy III. 490.12 (A.D. 124) one of the witnesses to a will records that ἔστιν μου ἡ σφ [ραγὶς ] δρακόμορφος : the edd. correct to δρακοντόμορφος, but in view of the common MGr δράκος, the bogey of many a folk-story, it seems better to assume the short form as genuine. It is one of many anticipations of MGr in a simplified word-formation.
In a Christian amulet, Kaibel 1140b. .3, Satan is addressed as μ [ί ]ασμα, δράκων, θη [ρῶν λ ]όχε, κτλ.
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