Lexicon Livyathan: "serpent," a sea monster or dragon Original Word: לִוְיָתָןPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: Livyathan Phonetic Spelling: (liv-yaw-thawn') Short Definition: Leviathan NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as livyahDefinition"serpent," a sea monster or dragon NASB TranslationLeviathan (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs לִוְיָתָן noun masculineJob 40:25 serpent, dragon, leviathan, in poetry and rare (on formation from לוה with feminine ת+ ןָ֯ see Thes and compare Ges § 85, 54 Kö ii, p. 99 Ba NB § 207c; Lag BN 205 thinks foreign loan-word); — sea-monster = crocodile Job 40:25; whale Psalm 104:25 (see Che); dragon producing eclipses (mythological) Job 3:8; figurative of Egypt as all-engulfing Psalm 74:14 ("" תַּנִּינִים Psalm 74:13); compare Isaiah 27:1 (twice in verse) ("" נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, נָחָשׁ עֲקַלָּתוֺן), see Che Di and especially (on ׳ל in General) Barton Tiamat, JAOS xv (1891), 22 ff. Gunk Schöpf. u. Chaos 46. Strong's leviathan, mourning From lavah; a wreathed animal, i.e. A serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea- monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Bab. -- leviathan, mourning. see HEBREW lavah |
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