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BEHEMOTH (the intensive plural of the...

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 656 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEHEMOTH (the intensive plural of the
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Hebrew b'hernah, a beast)
  , the animal mentioned in the
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book of
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Job (ch. xl . 15), probably the hippopotamus, which in ancient times was found in
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Egypt below the cataracts of Syene . The word may be used in Job as typical of the primeval king of
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land animals, as
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leviathan of the
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water animals . The
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modern use expresses the idea of a very large and strong animal .

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