Leviathan
Leviathan
The name Leviathan comes from the Hebrew Livyatan,[1] which comes from a root that means “to twist, turn, wind, or coil.” From a word to lend or to borrow...
Job 41:1 "Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord [which] thou lettest down?"... “34 He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.” Job 41:34
A Leviathan (plural leviathans) can be representing a vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean. (figuratively) Something monstrously large or mighty in size, strength, or wealth, etc.
Of coarse the Bible uses it as a metophore of something "powerful and dangerous". What gives the Leviathan it's power and size. As we see it comes from a word to lend.
If we understand keeping the Sabbath is a way and not a day and read the associated I struction we may understand keeping the sabbath is about avoiding debt, and not being a borrower.
Psalms 74:12 For God is my King... 14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, [and] gavest him [to be] meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness... “18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name. 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever. 20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name.” Psalms 74:18-21
The golden calf bound the people with the precept of one purse and they were required to eat it.
Psalms 104:26 There go the ships: [there is] that leviathan, [whom] thou hast made to play therein.
“24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. 26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. 27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. 28 That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good. 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. 30 Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.” Psalms 104:24-31, AV
Deuteronomy 28:36 "The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone... 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
43 The stranger that [is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail."
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that [is] in the sea.
- ↑ 03882 לִוְיָתָן livyathan [liv-yaw-thawn’] from 03867 לָוָה lavah which has to do with to join or to borrow; n m; [BDB-531a] [{See TWOT on 1089 @@ 089b" }] AV-leviathan 5, mourning 1; 6
- 1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon
- 1a) large aquatic animal
- 1b) perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, exact meaning unknown
- Some think this to be a crocodile but from the description in #Job 41:1-34 this is patently absurd. It appears to be a large fire breathing animal of some sort. Just as the bombardier beetle has an explosion producing mechanism, so the great sea dragon may have an explosive producing mechanism to enable it to be a real fire breathing dragon.
- 1) leviathan, sea monster, dragon