Leviathan
לִוְיָתָןStrong’s H3882livyatan (liv-ya-tan)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Livyatan is the Hebrew word usually translated “leviathan”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.”
Meaning
- A sea monster, dragon
How it's translated
- leviathan 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
- Psalms 74:14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
- Psalms 104:26There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
- Isaiah 27:1In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Hebrew dictionary
לִוְיָתָן livyatan · Leviathan
a sea monster, dragon 1a) large aquatic animal such as crocodile 1b) perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown, 1c) a mythical or proverbial creature
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leviathan” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEVI'ATHAN, noun
[Heb.]
- An aquatic animal, described in, and mentioned in other passages of Scripture. Job 41:1
- The whale, or a great whale.
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.