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Behemoth
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Hebrew word for beasts, left untranslated in Job 40, where it indicates a particular animal, probably mythical, in description similar to the hippopotamus and corresponding to the mythical Egyptian water-ox, p-ehe-mu, probably adapted into Hebrew as behemah, plural behemothj hence, monstrous beast.
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Entry for 'Behemoth'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/b/behemoth.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Behemoth'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/b/behemoth.html. 1910.
