בְּהֵמוֹת
bᵉhêmôwth · H930 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Thing
- BehemothMythical monsters1 verse
Meanings
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Behemoth, elephant, hippopotamus
A large wild animal, sometimes identified with the hippopotamus but more likely to denote the elephant or a mythical monster
ExamplesJob 40:15 “Behold, Behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Wild Animals001001002001
- This intensified plural form names a massive, untamed creature that God points to as His own handiwork in Job 40:15, describing it as eating grass like an ox, fitting this domain's category for creatures outside human domestication.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H930. Behemoth בְּהֵמוֺת noun masculine behemoth, i.e. hippopotamus (apparently plural…
בְּהֵמוֺת noun masculine behemoth, i.e. hippopotamus (apparently plural intensive of foregoing; according to Di Job 40:15 compare De Isa 30:6 from an (assumed) Egyptain p-ehemau, ox of the water) Job 40:15 (on identity, compare further BoHieroz. iii. 705); probably also Psa 73:22 עִמָּ֑ךְ הָיִיתִי בְּהֵמוֺת a behemoth was I with (toward) thee (so Hi De; Che beasts); according to De Or also in בַּהֲמוֺת Isa 30:6 the burden of the behemoth of the south (supposed to be a designation of Egypt; but this unlikely, compare Che Di, read therefore) rather beasts of the south, namely of Judah.
בהן (compare Arabic IV. shut, cover (see foregoing) whence also = בֹּהֶן; as closing and covering the hand, compare Lane).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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