King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3882
Transliteration: Livyathan
Phonetic Spelling: (liv-yaw-thawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: "serpent", a sea monster or dragon
Meaning: a wreathed animal, a serpent, dragon, Babylon
Word Summary
Livyathan: "serpent", a sea monster or dragon
Original Word: לִוְיָתָןTransliteration: Livyathan
Phonetic Spelling: (liv-yaw-thawn')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: "serpent", a sea monster or dragon
Meaning: a wreathed animal, a serpent, dragon, Babylon
Strong's 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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3882. Livyathan
לִוְיָתָן noun masculineJob 40:25 serpent, 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 ("" תַּנִּינִים 74:13); compare Isaiah 27:1 (twice in verse) ("" עֲקַלָּתוֺן נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, נָחָשׁ), see Che Di and especially (on ׳ל in General) BartonTiamat, JAOS xv (1891), 22 ff. GunkSchöpf. u. Chaos 46.