Leviathon
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 ...
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From lewy "joined" (referring to its joined, plate armour
like scales) and than a monster drawn out, i.e. long; or
else Arabic lavah "to twist." So Job 41:15-17. The
crocodile. The whale having a smooth skin and no scales
cannot be meant. The crocodile's teeth, 30 on each side of
each jaw, lock into each other. Lips are wanting, so that
the t...
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Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with
a cord [which] thou lettest down?...
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Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest
him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness....
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There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou
hast made to play therein....
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le-vi'-a-than (liwyathan (Job 41:1-34), from [~lawah, "to
fold"; compare Arabic
name of the wry neck, Iynx torquilla, abu-luwa, from kindred
lawa, "to bend"):
(1) The word "leviathan" also occurs in Isa 27:1, where it
is characterized as "the swift serpent .... the crooked
serpent"; in Ps 104:26, where a marine monster is indicated;
also in Ps...
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-Possibly a crocodile
Job 41; Ps 104:26
-"The crooked (R. V.) serpent."
Isa 27:1
-FIGURATIVE
Ps 74:14...
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(jointed monster) occurs five times in the text of the
Authorized Version, and once in the margin of Job 3:8 where
the text has "mourning." In the Hebrew Bible the word
livyathan, which is, with the foregoing exception, always left
untranslated in the Authorized Version, is found only in the
following passages: Job 3:8; 41:1; Ps 74:14; 104:26;...
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Leviathan. - The word Leviathan (Hebrew, líweyãthãn), which occurs six times in the Hebrew Bible, seems to have puzzled not a little all ancient translators. The D.V. has kept this name, Job, iii, 8; xl, 20; Is., xxvii, 1; it is rendered by dragon Ps. lxxiii (Hebr., lxxiv), 14, and ciii (Hebr., civ), 26; The word leviathan means:
(1) crocodile (Jo...
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