Jastrow: דְּרָקוֹן

דְּרָקוֹן m. (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. III, 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. יַרְבּוּו.]