לִוְיָתָןlivyâthân

serpent, dragon, leviathan, sea-monster (Job 40:25; Psalms 104:25; Job 3:8; Psalms 74:14; Psalms 74:13)

Pronunciation: liv-yaw-thawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3882

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 6 times in the Bible.

  • Job 3:8 Let those who are experts at cursing— whose cursing could rouse Leviathan— curse that day.
  • Job 41:1 “Can you catch Leviathan with a hook or put a noose around its jaw?
  • Psalms 74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan and let the desert animals eat him.
  • Psalms 104:26 See the ships sailing along, and Leviathan, which you made to play in the sea.
  • Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord will take his terrible, swift sword and punish Leviathan, the swiftly moving serpent, the coiling, writhing serpent. He will kill the dragon of the sea.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).