Leviathan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Leviathan	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Leviathan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
leviathan n the largest or most massive thing of its kind; "it was a leviathan among redwoods"; "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks" monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Leviathan \Levi"athan\ (l[esl]v[imac]"[adot]th[ait]n), n. [Heb. livy[be]th[be]n.] 1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture. Note: It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent. 2. The whale, or a great whale. --Milton.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Leviathan a transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning "twisted," "coiled." In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an enemy of light; in 41:1 the crocodile is meant; in Ps. 104:26 it "denotes any large animal that moves by writhing or wriggling the body, the whale, the monsters of the deep." This word is also used figuratively for a cruel enemy, as some think "the Egyptian host, crushed by the divine power, and cast on the shores of the Red Sea" (Ps. 74:14). As used in Isa. 27:1, "leviathan the piercing [R.V. 'swift'] serpent, even leviathan that crooked [R.V. marg. 'winding'] serpent," the word may probably denote the two empires, the Assyrian and the Babylonian.