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# בְּהֵמוֹת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H930

**behemoth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

behemoth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/930/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּהֵמוֹת: n.m. behemoth hippopotamus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/930/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. behemoth, i.e. hippopotamus (appar. pl. intens. of foreg.; according to Di Jb 40:15 cf. De Is 30:6 from an (assumed) Egyptian p-ehemau, ox of the water) Jb 40:15 (on identity, cf. further BoHieroz. iii. 705); prob. also ψ 73:22 בְּהֵמוֹת הָיִיתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ a behemoth was I with (toward) thee (so Hi De; Che beasts); according to De Or also in בַּהֲמוֹת Is 30:6 the burden of the behemoth of the south (supposed to be a designation of Egypt; but this unlikely, cf. Che Di, read therefore) rather beasts of the south, viz. of Judah.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Behemoth (1).

## In the verses

[Job 40:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.15/#tree)

הִנֵּה־נָ֣א בְ֭הֵמוֹת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ חָ֝צִ֗יר כַּבָּקָ֥ר יֹאכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* there! please Behemoth which I.made with you grass like (the) ox it.eats

*JPS 1917:* Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/930.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/930/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).