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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Behemoth \Be"he*moth\, n. [Heb. behem[=o]th, fr Egyptian P-ehe-maut hippopotamus.] An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in --Job xl 15-24. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: behemoth n 1: someone who is abnormally large [syn: {giant}, {goliath}, {monster}, {colossus}] 2: a person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: {colossus}, {giant}, {heavyweight}, {titan}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Behemoth (Job 40:15-24). Some have supposed this to be an Egyptian word meaning a "water-ox." The Revised Version has here in the margin "hippopotamus," which is probably the correct rendering of the word The word occurs frequently in Scripture, but except here always as a common name and translated beast" or "cattle." From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Behemoth, beasts
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