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Crocodile
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or CROCODILE . (1) livyâthân , Psalms 74:14 , Isaiah 27:1 , Job 41:1 f. The last reference is almost certainly to the crocodile, which is adopted in RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] . See Leviathan. (2) hayyath qâneh , ‘the wild beast of the reeds,’ Psalms 68:30 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , is thought by many to be the crocodile or the hippopotamus as symbolizing Egypt. (3) In Jeremiah 14:6 tannîm is in RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘crocodiles.’ See Dragon. For ‘land crocodile’ see Lizard. The crocodile probably still exists in the Nahr ez-Zerka , S. of Mount Carmel, called by Pliny the Crocodile River. It is supposed to have been brought there by some Egyptian settlers. A dead crocodile was brought from there to the late Rev. J. Zeller of Nazareth. Herr Schumacher reports that he saw one there, and quite recently a number of crocodile’s eggs were brought from this river and sold in Jerusalem. A stuffed specimen is in the PEF [Note: EF Palestine Exploration Fund.] museum, London.
E. W. G. Masterman.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Crocodile'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/c/crocodile.html. 1909.
