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Job 40

Job 40:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold now φbehemoth
bhemowth (Hebrew #930)
a water-ox, i.e. the hippopotamus or Nile- horse
KJV usage: Behemoth.
Pronounce: be-hay-mohth'
Origin: in form a plural or 929, but really a singular of Egyptian derivation
, which I made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
with thee; he eateth
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
grass
chatsiyr (Hebrew #2682)
grass; also a leek (collectively)
KJV usage: grass, hay, herb, leek.
Pronounce: khaw-tseer'
Origin: perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard
as an ox
baqar (Hebrew #1241)
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
KJV usage: beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Pronounce: baw-kawr'
Origin: from 1239
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or, the elephant, as some think.

More on:

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Behemoth,
Elephant,
Grass,
Ox; Oxen

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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behemoth.[Behêmôwth ,] Perhaps an extinct dinosaur, maybe a Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus, the exact meaning is unknown. Some translate as elephant or hippopotamus but from the description in
Job 40:15‑24• 15See now the behemoth, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox.
 16Behold now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
 17He bendeth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are woven together.
 18His bones are tubes of bronze, his members are like bars of iron.
 19He is the chief of *God's ways: he that made him gave him his sword.
 20For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
 21He lieth under lotus-bushes, in the covert of the reed and fen:
 22Lotus-bushes cover him with their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.
 23Lo, the river overfloweth--he startleth not: he is confident though a Jordan break forth against his mouth.
 24Shall he be taken in front? will they pierce through his nose in the trap? (Job 40:15‑24)
, this is patently absurd.which.
Gen. 1:24‑26• 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so.
 25And God made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over the whole earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth. (Gen. 1:24‑26)
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Job 40:20• 20For the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. (Job 40:20)
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Job 39:8• 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Job 39:8)
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Psa. 104:14• 14He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; bringing forth bread out of the earth, (Psa. 104:14)
• Behemoth—resistless strength (vers. 15-24). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• We are brought thus to hearken to the application by Jehovah of the lesson of creature-strength and pride, as exhibited and typified in the behemoth and leviathan. Our present section deals with the former of these creatures; the next, with the latter. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• Students are agreed that the first beast is the hippopotamus, the model of resistless force and strength. It is one of Job’s fellow-creatures, but how transcendently mighty. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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See now the behemothc, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox.

JND Translation Notes

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Perhaps the hippopotamus.

W. Kelly Translation

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Behold, now, Behemotha, which I made with thee:{HR}He eateth chives as an ox.

WK Translation Notes

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The two creatures of God, not now land-animals or birds, as in the former discourses, but amphibious, though there have been people of erudition who contend for the elephant as meant by Behemoth, thinking that the name is a plural. This, however, does not suit the description, particularly as to the tail; and the name is, as competent men believe, an Egyptian designation (p-ehe-mo, literally water ox) of the hippopotamus in Shemitic form.