As used in the bible, "dragon" refers to the fallen angel we call Satan. He is also called a serpent in Genesis 3:1;
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
In Job 41 there is further description of the leviathan, which includes the following:
(41:15-17 ) His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. One so near to another, that no air can come between them. They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
(41:19-21) Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out. Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron. His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Isaiah 27:1 identifies the leviathan as the serpent:
“In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
In Revelation 12:9 we further learn that the serpent is none other than the devil;
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Revelation 20:2 again reinforces that devil, serpent and dragon are the same:
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
In non-believer circles, it is sometimes suggested that what we think of today as dinosaurs were formerly called dragons. The word dinosaur wasn't created until 1841, by Sir Richard Owen, combining the Greek word deinos (terrible) with sauros (lizard).
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