indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, As used in Isaiah 27:1, "leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent," the word may probably denote the two empires, the Assyrian and the Babylonian. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an enemy of light in 41:1 the crocodile is meant in Psalms 104:26 it "denotes any large animal that moves by writhing or wriggling the body, the whale, the monsters of the deep." This word is also used figuratively for a cruel enemy, as some think "the Egyptian host, crushed by the divine power, and cast on the shores of the Red Sea" ( Psalms 74:14 ). A transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning "twisted," "coiled." In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg.
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