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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #3882 - לִוְיָתָן
Transliteration
livyâthân
Phonetics
liv-yaw-thawn'
Root Word (Etymology)
from (H3867)
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TWOT
1089b
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs'
1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon
1a) large aquatic animal
1b) perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
Greek Equivalent Words:
Frequency Lists
- Book
- Word
Verse Results
KJV (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
NAS (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
HCS (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
BSB (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
ESV (6)
Job
2
Psalms
2
Isaiah
2
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.
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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
