And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
19 Out of his mouth go burning lights;
Sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils,
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes." vv.18-20
Read chapter 41
Dragons? In these verses we read of fire and smoke coming out of this creature's nose. Kind of sounds like a description of a dragon here in this chapter. Yet did you know the word dinosaur didn't come into the English language until scientist Sir Richard Owen introduced it in the mid-1800s. Before then, large reptiles were called dragons. So really the word dinosaur and dragon mean the same thing, though each dinosaur/dragon is different in appearance and ability. The Hebrew word tannin is defined by The Enhanced Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon as “serpent, dragon, sea-monster.” Dragons today have been embellished as mythical made up creatures, yet we see dragons in many cultures today and in their past. "To name a few, there’s an Aboriginal depiction of a water monster that resembles a plesiosaur, an ancient historical account of serpents in Egypt with bat-like wings, the epic poem Beowulf with its account of a fiery flying serpent, and Native American petroglyphs (etchings in stone) that resemble dragons. Dragons are depicted on flags, emblems, tapestries, maps, pottery, pictographs, and more. Although from disconnected cultures, the descriptions are remarkably similar—perhaps because dragons were real?" (answersingenesis.org).
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