דרקון

דְּרָקֹוןm. (δράκων) dragon, Boa Constrictor (v. Sm. Ant. s. v.). (Its figure was used as a military ensign of the Roman cohorts. In Talm. it is considered an emblem of idolatry. Ab. Zar. III, 3 if one finds vessels ועליהם … צורת ד׳ upon which is the figure of the sun … or of a dragon. Tosef. ib. V (VI), 2 איזהו מין ד׳ שאסור (v. ed. Zuck. note) what kind of serpent is forbidden (as an emblem of idolatry)?; Y. ib. III, 42d top.Lev. R. s. 16, beg. (ref. to תעכסנה, Is. 3:16; cmp. עָכִיס) שהיתה צורת ד׳וכ׳ the figure of a serpent was on her shoes; Lam. R. to IV, 15 דרקין (corr. acc.). B. Bath.16b. Gitt.56b וד׳ כרוך עליה and a serpent wound around the barrel (allusion to the city of Jerusalem under the terrorism of the extremists). (Deut. R. s. 6 בא הדרבון, corr. acc. Y.Kil.I, 27a bot. Ar., v. יַרְבּוּז.