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Thursday, July 3rd, 2025
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3882 - לִוְיָתָן
Transliteration
livyâthân
Phonetics
liv-yaw-thawn'
Origin
from (H3867)
Parts of Speech
masculine noun
TWOT
1089b
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition
- leviathan, sea monster, dragon
- large aquatic animal
- perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
- ++++
- Some think this to be a crocodile but from the description in Job 41:1-34 this is patently absurd. It appears to ba a large fire breathing animal of some sort. Just as the bomardier beetle has an explosion producing mechanism, so the great sea dragon may have an explosive producing mechanism to enable it to be a real fire breathing dragon.
Greek Equivalent Words:
Frequency Lists
- Book
- Word
Verse Results
ASV (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
BSB (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
CSB (5)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
ESV (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
KJV (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
LEB (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
LSB (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
N95 (4)
Job
2
Isaiah
2
NAS (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
NLT (0)
The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number
did not use
this Strong's Number
WEB (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
לִוְיָתָן noun masculine Job 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), 22ff. Gunk Schöpf. u. Chaos 46.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
לִוְיָתָן (with the adj. termination ־ָן, like נְחֻשְׁתָּן brazen, from נְחשֶׁת, עֲקַלָּתוֹן from עֲקַלָּה), prop. an (animal), wreathed, twisted in folds.
(1) a serpent of a larger kind, Job 3:8 (as to this place see the root עוּר Pilel); Isaiah 27:1 (where it is the symbol of the hostile kingdom of Babylon).
(2) specially, a crocodile, Job 40:25, seq.
(3) any very large aquatic creature, Psalms 104:26 used for a fierce enemy, Psalms 74:14 comp. תַּנִּין Isaiah 51:9; Ezekiel 29:3, 32:2, Ezekiel 32:3. Bochart, Hieroz. P. ii. lib. v. cap. 16-18.
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List of Word Forms
לִ֝וְיָתָ֗ן לִוְיָתָ֑ן לִוְיָתָ֔ן לִוְיָתָ֣ן לִוְיָתָֽן׃ לִוְיָתָן֙ לויתן לויתן׃ livyaTan liw·yā·ṯān liwyāṯān
