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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Whale \Whale\, n. [OE. whal, AS hw[ae]l; akin to D. walvisch
G. wal, walfisch OHG. wal, Icel. hvalr Dan. & Sw hval,
hvalfisk Cf {Narwhal}, {Walrus}.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any aquatic mammal of the order {Cetacea}, especially any one
of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred
feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and
baleen, or whalebone.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
whale
n 1: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: {giant},
{hulk}, {heavyweight}]
2: any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body
and breathing through a blowhole on the head
v : hunt for whales
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Whale
The Hebrew word _tan_ (plural, tannin) is so rendered in Job
7:12 (A.V.; but R.V., "sea-monster"). It is rendered by
dragons" in Deut. 32:33; Ps 91:13; Jer. 51:34; Ps 74:13
(marg., "whales;" and marg. of R.V., "sea-monsters"); Isa. 27:1;
and serpent" in Ex 7:9 (R.V. marg., "any large reptile," and
so in ver. 10, 12). The words of Job (7:12), uttered in bitter
irony, where he asks, "Am I a sea or a whale?" simply mean
"Have I a wild, untamable nature, like the waves of the sea,
which must be confined and held within bounds, that they cannot
pass?" "The serpent of the sea, which was but the wild, stormy
sea itself wound itself around the land, and threatened to
swallow it up...Job inquires if he must be watched and plagued
like this monster, lest he throw the world into disorder"
(Davidson's Job).
The whale tribe are included under the general Hebrew name
_tannin_ (Gen. 1:21; Lam. 4:3). "Even the sea-monsters
[tanninim] draw out the breast." The whale brings forth its
young alive, and suckles them
It is to be noticed of the story of Jonah's being "three days
and three nights in the whale's belly," as recorded in Matt.
12:40, that here the Gr ketos means properly any kind of
sea-monster of the shark or the whale tribe, and that in the
book of Jonah (1:17) it is only said that "a great fish" was
prepared to swallow Jonah. This fish may have been therefore,
some great shark. The white shark is known to frequent the
Mediterranean Sea, and is sometimes found 30 feet in length.
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