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, Ugaritica 5, 137 I 8';
- cf. J. Huehnergard, Ugaritic Vocabulary in Syllabic Transcription, Atlanta, GA 1987, 185f.;
cf. W.H. van Soldt, Studies in the Akkadian of Ugarit, Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn, 307;
cf. URU tu-na-a-na, Ugaritica 5, 95:20 cf. D. Sivan, Grammatical Analysis and Glossary of the Northwest Semitic Vocables in Akkadian Texts of the 15th-13th C.B.C. from Canaan and Syria, Kevelaer/Neukirchen-Vluyn 1984, 280) and the onomastic element /tun(n)ī/in-/ in tnn (II);
¶ parallel: bṯn, nhr, ym.
Divine name: l ištbm tnn yes, I muzzled DN, 1.3 III 40 (// bṯn, nhr, ym; cf. 1.83:8: reading tnn);
b ym arš w tnn against DN, DN and DN, 1.6 VI 51
- differently: Dahood RSP 2 36; 'to grant', *tyn; Aartun, Ugarit-Forschungen 17, 1985, 38f.: 'Rauchen', Syriac tannen; Pope, in M. deJong Ellis (ed,), Essays on the Ancient Near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, Hamden, CT 1977 172: 'mourning', *wnn);
]mḫṣ bʕl [xx]y tnn may DN (...) crush DN (?), 1.82:1. In broken *2context: tnn, ] tnnx. 1.16 V 31, 32.
