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Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down? | [[Job 41]]:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down? | ||
[[Leviathan]] (plural leviathans) | A [[Leviathan]] (plural leviathans) can represent as a vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean. (figuratively) Something monstrously large or mighty in size, strength, or wealth, etc. | ||
Of coarse the Bible uses it as a metophore of something "powerful and dangerous". What gives the [[Leviathan]] it's power and size. As we see it comes from a word ''to lend''. | |||
If we understand keeping the [[Sabbath]] a out a way and not a day and read the associated I struction we may understand keeping the sabbath is about avoiding debt, and not being a borrower. | |||
[[Psalms 74]]:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness. | |||
The [[golden calf]] bound the people with the precept of [[one purse]] and they were required to eat it. | |||
[[Psalms 104]):26 There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein. | |||
[[Deuteronomy 28]]:36 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy [[2 Samuel 8|king which thou shalt set over thee]], unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone... 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume. | |||
[[Deuteronomy 28]]:36 "The LORD shall bring thee, and thy [[2 Samuel 8|king which thou shalt set over thee]], unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone... 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the [[locust]] consume. | |||
43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. | 43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low. | ||
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail. | 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail." | ||
[[Isaiah 27]]:1 In 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. | |||
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Revision as of 16:21, 10 February 2024
Leviathan
The name Leviathan comes from the Hebrew Livyatan,[1] which comes from a root that means “to twist, turn, wind, or coil.” From a word to lend or to borrow...
Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?
A Leviathan (plural leviathans) can represent as a vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean. (figuratively) Something monstrously large or mighty in size, strength, or wealth, etc.
Of coarse the Bible uses it as a metophore of something "powerful and dangerous". What gives the Leviathan it's power and size. As we see it comes from a word to lend.
If we understand keeping the Sabbath a out a way and not a day and read the associated I struction we may understand keeping the sabbath is about avoiding debt, and not being a borrower.
Psalms 74:14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
The golden calf bound the people with the precept of one purse and they were required to eat it.
[[Psalms 104]):26 There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
Deuteronomy 28:36 "The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone... 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail."
Isaiah 27:1 In 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.
- ↑ 03882 לִוְיָתָן livyathan [liv-yaw-thawn’] from 03867 לָוָה lavah which has to do with to join or to borrow; n m; [BDB-531a] [{See TWOT on 1089 @@ 089b" }] AV-leviathan 5, mourning 1; 6
- 1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon
- 1a) large aquatic animal
- 1b) perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
- Some think this to be a crocodile but from the description in #Job 41:1-34 this is patently absurd. It appears to be a large fire breathing animal of some sort. Just as the bombardier beetle has an explosion producing mechanism, so the great sea dragon may have an explosive producing mechanism to enable it to be a real fire breathing dragon.
- 1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon