לִוְיָתָן

לִוְיָתָן noun masculine^{Job 40,25} serpent, dragon, leviathan, in poetry and rare (on formation from לוה with feminine ת+ ןָ֯ see Thes and compare Ges^{«GKC:85»§ 85}, 54 Kö^{ii, p. 99} Ba^{NB § 207c}; Lag^{BN 205} thinks foreign loan-word); — sea-monster = crocodile Job 40,25 whale Sl 104,25 (see Che); dragon producing eclipses (mythological) Job 3,8 figurative of Egypt as all-engulfing Sl 74,14 (|| תַּנִּינִים vSl 74,13); compare Es 27,1 (twice in verse) (|| נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, נָחָשׁ עֲקַלָּתוֺן), see Che Di and especially (on ׳ל in general) Barton^{Tiamat, JAOS xv (1891), 22 ff.} Gunk^{Schöpf. u. Chaos 46}.