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לִוְיָתָן

Transliteration livyathan		Pronunciation liv·yä·thän' (Key)
Part of Speech masculine noun		Root Word (Etymology) From לָוָה (H3867)
TWOT Reference 1089b

1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon

a) large aquatic animal

b) 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 bomardier 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.

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Strong's Number H3882 matches the Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (livyathan), which occurs 6 times in 5 verses in the Hebrew concordance of the KJV
Page 1 / 1 (Job 3:8 - Isa 27:1)
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Job 3:8	Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning³⁸⁸².
Job 41:1	Canst thou draw out leviathan³⁸⁸² with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down ?
Psa 74:14	Thou brakest the heads of leviathan³⁸⁸² in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psa 104:26	There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan³⁸⁸², [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
Isa 27:1	In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan³⁸⁸² the piercing serpent, even leviathan³⁸⁸² that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.

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