dragon
Tan denotes the sea-creature image used in a lament comparing Pharaoh with a disruptive animal in the waters.
The attested use is an animal image in a lament over Pharaoh: he is compared with a creature in the seas that bursts into rivers, disturbs the waters, and fouls them.
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Sea-creature image for Pharaoh · dominant
In Ezekiel 32:2, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs in the comparison of Pharaoh with a creature “in the seas.” The APB renders the clause “you were like a dragon in the seas,” followed by imagery of bursting into rivers and troubling and fouling their waters.
In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ezekiel 32:2, the APB presents the comparison as “like a dragon in the seas.” This rendering confirms the verse's creature imagery without isolating every nuance of the Hebrew term.