Leviathan in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning "twisted,"
"coiled." In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg. of
Authorized
Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to
Eastern
tradition, is an enemy of light; in 41:1 the
crocodile is meant;
in Ps. 104:26 it "denotes any large animal that
moves by
writhing or wriggling the body, the whale, the
monsters of the
deep." This word is also used figuratively for a
cruel enemy, as
some think "the Egyptian host, crushed by the divine
power, and
cast on the shores of the Red Sea" (Ps. 74:14). As
used in Isa.
27:1, "leviathan the piercing [R.V. 'swift']
serpent, even
leviathan that crooked [R.V. marg. 'winding']
serpent," the word
may probably denote the two empires, the Assyrian
and the
Babylonian.
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