Topic
Dragon, The
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Deuteronomy 32:33Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Poisonous
Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 30:29Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Of solitary habits
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Psalms 9:13Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of enemies of the church
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
- Psalms 44:19Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of wicked men
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- Psalms 74:13Torrey A species of, in rivers
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
- Isaiah 13:22Torrey FOUND IN — Deserted cities
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
- Isaiah 27:1Torrey A species of, in rivers
In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
- Isaiah 34:13Torrey FOUND IN — Dry places
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
- Isaiah 43:20Torrey FOUND IN — Dry places
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.
- Isaiah 51:9Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of cruel and persecuting kings
¶ Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
- Jeremiah 9:11Torrey FOUND IN — Deserted cities
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 14:6Torrey Its snuffing up the air alluded to
And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
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- Jeremiah 51:34 Torrey Its swallowing of its prey alluded to
- Ezekiel 29:3 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of cruel and persecuting kings
- Micah 1:8 Torrey Its mournful voice alluded to
- Malachi 1:3 Torrey FOUND IN — The wilderness
- Revelation 12:3 Torrey Often of a red colour
- Revelation 12:4 Torrey DESCRIBED AS — Powerful
- Revelation 13:2 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the devil
- Revelation 20:2 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the devil
- Revelation 20:7 Torrey ILLUSTRATIVE — Of the devil
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 24 references, grouped by sub-topic
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.