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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Behemoth
Behemoth is not a person but a massive land creature God describes to Job as proof of his own power over creation, most often identified with the hippopotamus given the description of its strength, its grass diet, and its habitat among the reeds of the river (Job 40:15-24).
Behemoth is not a person but a massive land creature God describes to Job as proof of his own power over creation, most often identified with the hippopotamus given the description of its strength, its grass diet, and its habitat among the reeds of the river (Job 40:15-24).
Behemoth is not a person but a massive land creature God describes to Job as proof of his own power over creation, most often identified with the hippopotamus given the description of its strength, its grass diet, and its habitat among the reeds of the river (Job 40:15-24). Some interpreters read it instead as a more general symbol of untamable animal power, or pair it with Leviathan as a primeval chaos-beast, but the hippopotamus identification best fits the physical details in the text.
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- Job 40:15
