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# לִוְיָתָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3882

**serpent** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

serpent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3882/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לִוְיָתָן: n.m. serpent, dragon, leviathan rare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3882/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jb 40:25 serpent, dragon, leviathan, poet. and rare (on format. from לוה c. fem. ת + ָן v. Thes and cf. Ges§ 85, 54 Köii, p. 99 BaNB § 207 c; LagBN 205 (thinks foreign loan-word);—sea-monster = crocodile Jb 40:25; whale ψ 104:26 (v. Che); dragon producing eclipses (mythol.) Jb 3:8; fig. of Egypt as all-engulfing ψ 74:14 (‖ תַּנִּינִים v 13); cf. Is 27:1(×2) (‖ נָחָשׁ בָּרִחַ, נָחָשׁ עֲקַלָּתוֹן), v. Che Di and especially (on ל׳ in gen.) BartonTiamat, JAOS xv (1891), 22 ff. GunkelSchöpf. u. Chaos 46.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Leviathan (5); of Leviathan (1).

## In the verses

[Job 3:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.8/#tree)

יִקְּבֻ֥הוּ אֹרְרֵי־י֑וֹם הָ֝עֲתִידִ֗ים עֹרֵ֥ר לִוְיָתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* let them.curse.it \[those.who\].curse (of).a.day the.\[ones\] ready to.rouse Leviathan

*JPS 1917:* Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

[Job 40:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.25/#tree)

תִּמְשֹׁ֣ךְ לִוְיָתָ֣ן בְּחַכָּ֑ה וּ֝בְחֶ֗בֶל תַּשְׁקִ֥יעַ לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will.you.draw.out? Leviathan with a.fish.hook and with a.cord will.you.make.sink? tongue its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fish-hook? or press down his tongue with a cord?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3882/): 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).