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Thursday, September 19th, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24

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Strong's #3882 - לִוְיָתָן

Transliteration

livyâthân

Phonetics

liv-yaw-thawn'

Origin

from (H3867)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

1089b

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

leviathan, sea monster, dragon
1. large aquatic animal
2. perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
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Some think this to be a crocodile but from the description in Job 41:1-34 this is patently absurd. It appears to ba a large fire breathing animal of some sort. Just as the bomardier beetle has an explosion producing mechanism, so the great sea dragon may have an explosive producing mechanism to enable it to be a real fire breathing dragon.

Greek Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 1404 ‑ δράκων (drak'‑own); 2785 ‑ κῆτος (kay'‑tos); 3173 ‑ μέγας (meg'‑as);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

BSB (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

CSB (5)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

ESV (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

KJV (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

LEB (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

LSB (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

N95 (4)

Job 2

Isaiah 2

NAS (6)

Job 2

Psalms 2

Isaiah 2

NLT (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

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}.

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