hebrew #3882 - לִוְיָתָן Livyathan ("serpent")
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance leviathan, mourning From lavah; a wreathed animal, i.e. A serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea- monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Bab. -- leviathan, mourning. see HEBREW lavah Englishman's Concordance 1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon 1a) large aquatic animal 1b) perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3867 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1089b Brown-Driver-Briggsלִוְיָתָןnoun masculineJob 40:25serpent, dragon, leviathan, in poetry and rare (on formation from לוה with feminine ת+ ןָ֯ see Thes and compare Ges§ 85, 54 Köii, p. 99 BaNB § 207c; LagBN 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 ("" תַּנִּינִיםPsalm 74:13); compare Isaiah 27:1 (twice in verse) ("" נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, נָחָשׁ עֲקַלָּתוֺן), see Che Di and especially (on ׳ל in General) BartonTiamat, JAOS xv (1891), 22 ff. GunkSchöpf. u. Chaos 46. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 3882. לִוְיָתָן (Livyathan) — 6 OccurrencesJob 3:8 Job 41:1 Psalm 74:14 Psalm 104:26 Isaiah 27:1 Isaiah 27:1 |