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. Dt 28:26; 32:24; Isa 18:6; Hab 2:17, where it is not
rendered "behemoth" but "beasts." According to some, the
word behemoth, occurring in Job 40:15, is not a Hebr...
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(great beasts). There can be little or no doubt that by this
word, Job 40:15-24 the hippopotamus is intended since all the
details descriptive of the behemoth accord entirely with the
ascertained habits of that animal. The hippopotamus is an
immense creature having a thick and square head, a large mouth
often two feet broad, small eyes and ear...
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(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."...
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(Job 40:15-24.) The Egyptian, Coptic, pehemout, "the water
ox," Hebraized; our "river horse", hippopotamus. "Behold I
made him with thee." Yet how great the difference! "He
eateth grass as an ox;" a marvel in an animal so much in the
water, and that such a monster is not carnivorous. "His
force is in the navel (rather muscles) of his belly"; t...
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Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass
as an ox....
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Behemoth, is generally translated by "great beasts"; in its wider signification it includes all mammals living on earth, but in the stricter sense is applied to domesticated quadrupeds at large. However in Job, xl, 10, where it is left untranslated and considered as a proper name, it indicates a particular animal. The description of this animal has...
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