לִוְיָתָן

«לִוְיָתָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: serpent — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 6 times · Key: 3882 · BDB: לִוְיָתָן

Glosses

Leviathan (5); of.Leviathan (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

serpent tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. serpent, dragon, leviathan rare tree →

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)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «לִוְיָתָן» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 3:8

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

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?

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