noun · masculine
drakontos
Strong’sG1404
a dragon or huge serpent
stem drakont-13 times in the New Testament4 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
δράκων (drakōn) means a dragon or huge serpent 4, denoting a mythical monster 1. Its form is probably related to the verb "to look," perhaps from the idea that such a creature was thought able to fascinate or transfix with its gaze 23.
In the New Testament the word is used only in the figurative sense, applied to Satan 1.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G1404 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddrak'-own
a fabulous kind of serpent (perhaps as supposed to fascinate)
Fromprobably from an alternate form of δέρκομαι (to look);
King Jamesdragon.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
o(: (probably from δέρκομαι, δρᾰκεῖν,Refs 3rd c.AD+:— dragon, serpent, Refs 8th c.BC+; perhaps a water-snake, Refs
II the constellation Draco, Refs 4th c.BC+
III a sea-fish, the great weever, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV ={κηρύκειον}, probably a wand with a serpent coiled round it, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.2 serpent-shaped bracelet or necklace, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV.3 a noose or crossed bandage for the ankle, Heraclas cited in Refs 4th c.AD+
IV.4 dragon-standard, Refs 4th c.AD+: hence, corps of 1,000 men in the Parthian army, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | drakontos9×δράκων | drakontois |
| object accusative | drakonton1×δράκοντα | drakontoin |
| direct address vocative | drakontor | drakontoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | drakontou2×δράκοντος | drakontoiu |
| to, for dative | drakonto1×δράκοντι | drakontoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
drakonto is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
13 occurrences, every one of them listed
drakontos“dragon”subjectnominative singular9×
Revelation 12:3… sēmem en to ourano, kai idou drakontos megos purros, echarōntos kefalain hepta kai …… appeared in heaven: a huge red dragon with seven heads, ten horns, and …
Revelation 12:4… autoin eis tan gēan. kai tos drakontos stēatē enōpion tau gunaikau tau mellarōntau …… them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was …
Revelation 12:7… polemara meta tou drakontou. kai tos drakontos polemata kai tois angelois autou,… and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels …
Revelation 12:9kai balita tos drakontos tos megos, tos ofios tos archaios, …And the great dragon was hurled down — that ancient serpent …
Revelation 12:13Kai hote horata tos drakontos hoti balita eis tan gēan, diōkata …And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown …
Revelation 12:16… katapinata ton potamon hon balata tos drakontos ek teu stomeu autou;… swallow up the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
Revelation 12:17kai orgizita tos drakontos epi ta gunaika, kai aperchata poiara …And the dragon was enraged at the woman and …
Revelation 13:2… stomem leontou. kai dōata aute tos drakontos tan dunamian auteu kai ton thronon …… mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave the beast his power and …
Revelation 13:11… duo homoieim arnie, kai lalate hōs drakontos.… a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
drakonton“dragon”objectaccusative singular1×
Revelation 20:2kai kratata ton drakonton, tos ofios tos archaios, hos atō …He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the …
drakontou“dragon”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Revelation 12:7… angelois autou teu polemara meta tou drakontou. kai tos drakontos polemata kai tois …… fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Revelation 16:13kai horama ek teu stomeu tou drakontou kai ek teu stomeu teu thēreu …… out of the mouths of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet.
drakonto“dragon”to, fordative singular1×
Revelation 13:4kai proskunala to drakonto hoti dōata tan exousian te thēre, …They worshiped the dragon who had given authority to the …