Behemoth
בְּהֵמוֹתStrong’s H0930behemot (be-he-mot)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Behemot is the Hebrew word usually translated “behemoth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.”
Meaning
- Behemoth
How it's translated
- behemoth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בְּהֵמוֹת behemot · Behemoth
Behemoth This name means perhaps an extinct dinosaur 1a) a Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus, exact meaning unknown 1b) hippopotamus 1c) a mythical or proverbial creature
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “behemoth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE'HEMOTH, noun
]Heb. a beast or brute; from an Arabic vert, which signifies, to shut, to lie hid, to be dumb. In Eth.dumb.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.