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Job 41:1

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Masoretic Text 1524

H4900 Canst thou draw out תמשׁך

H3882 leviathan לויתן

H2443 with an hook בחכה

H2256 with a cord ובחבל

H8257 which thou lettest down תשׁקיע

H3956 or his tongue לשׁנו׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Canst

thou

draw

H4900 out

H3882 leviathan

with

H2443 hook

his

H3956 tongue

with

H2256 cord

which

thou

lettest

H8257 down

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H3882

Hebrew: לִוְיָתָן

Transliteration: livyâthân

Pronunciation: liv-yaw-thawn'

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Bible Usage: {leviathan} mourning.

Definition:

a wreathed {animal} that {is} a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea monster); figuratively the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Babylon

1. leviathan, sea monster, dragon

a. large aquatic animal

b. perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown ++++ Some think this to be a crocodile but from the description in Job 41 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.

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906