tnn†
(I)†
Divine name, "dragon". ym's primordial alyl or double.
- Hebrew tnyn, The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, vols. I-V *1, Leiden 1994 ff, 1764f.;
Syriac tanīnō, C. Brockelmann, Lexicon Syriacum, Hildesheim 1966, 828;
Arabic tinnīn, E. W. Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, vols. 1-2, Cambridge 1984, 318.
Cf. J.C. de Moor, The Seasonal Pattern in the Ugaritic Myth of Baʕlu, Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1971, 242.
¶ Ugaritic written in the syllabic tradition: [MUŠ] = [ṣīru] = [apši...] = tu-un-na-nu, Ug 5 137 I 8';
