Behemoth (1 Occurrence)

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Job 40:15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Thesaurus

Behemoth (1 Occurrence)
...BEHEMOTH. be'-he-moth, be-he'-moth (behemoth: Job 40:15): Apparently the plural
of behemah, "a beast," used of domestic or wild animals. ...
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Leviathan (5 Occurrences)
... For a discussion of the behemoth and leviathan as mythical creatures, see EB, under
the word "Behemoth" and "Leviathan." The points in the description which ...
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Be'hemoth (1 Occurrence)
Be'hemoth. << Behemoth, Be'hemoth. Behind >>. Multi-Version Concordance Be'hemoth
(1 Occurrence). Job 40:15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. ...
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Zoology
... Marten (sv CAT) (e) Ursidae, Bear UNGULATA: (a) Odd-toed: Horse, Ass, Mule, Rhinoceros
(b) Even-toed non-ruminants: Swine, Hippopotamus (Behemoth) (c) Ruminants ...
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Hippopotamus
... It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. ...
HIPPOPOTAMUS. hip-o-pot'-a-mus (Job 41:1 margin). See BEHEMOTH. ...
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Navel (4 Occurrences)
... instead of shorrekha, sherekha equals she'erkha, "thy flesh")): The King James Version
translates the Hebrew sharir in the description of Behemoth (Job 40:16 ...
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Lotus (2 Occurrences)
... lo'-tus (tse'elim; the King James Version shady trees): The trees under which behemoth
(the "hippopotams") rests; "He lieth under the lotus-trees," "The lotus ...
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Loins (72 Occurrences)
... They represent various modes of expressing the loins as the seat of strength and
vigor (Job 40:16, Hebrew mothen, here used of Behemoth), the center of ...
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Ivory (13 Occurrences)
... and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him."
In Job 40:15, the King James Version margin has for "behemoth," "the elephant ...
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Feeds (14 Occurrences)
... broken as a tree. (See NAS). Job 40:15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as
well as you. He eats grass as an ox. (See NIV). Psalms 80:13 ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names

Behemoth

beasts

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

BEHEMOTH

be'-he-moth, be-he'-moth (behemoth: Job 40:15): Apparently the plural of behemah, "a beast," used of domestic or wild animals. The same form, behemoth, occurs in other passages, e.g. Deuteronomy 28:26; Deuteronomy 32:24 Isaiah 18:6 Habakkuk 2:17, where it is not rendered "behemoth" but "beasts." According to some, the word behemoth, occurring in Job 40:15, is not a Hebrew word, the plural of behemah, but a word of Egyptian origin signifying "water ox." This etymology is denied by Cheyne and others. The word has by various writers been understood to mean rhinoceros and elephant, but the description (Job 40:15-24) applies on the whole very well to the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus arnphibius) which inhabits the Nile and other rivers of Africa. Especially applicable are the references to its great size, its eating grass, the difficulty with which weapons penetrate its hide, and its frequenting of streams. "He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen. The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about." The remains of a fossil hippopotamus of apparently the same species are found over most of Europe, so that it may have inhabited Palestine in early historical times, although we have no record of it. There is a smaller living species in west Africa, and there are several other fossil species in Europe and India. The remains of Hippopotamus minutus have been found in enormous quantities in caves in Malta and Sicily.

For an elaborate explanation of behemoth and leviathan (which see) as mythical creatures, see Cheyne, EB, under the word

Alfred Ely Day

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Job 40:15-24). Some have supposed this to be an Egyptian word meaning a "water-ox." The Revised Version has here in the margin "hippopotamus," which is probably the correct rendering of the word. The word occurs frequently in Scripture, but, except here, always as a common name, and translated "beast" or "cattle."

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A huge animal or creation.

Strong's Hebrew

930. Behemoth -- a kind of animal
... << 929, 930. Behemoth. 931 >>. a kind of animal. Transliteration: Behemoth Phonetic
Spelling: (be-hay-mohth') Short Definition: Behemoth. Word Origin probably pl ...
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