KJV dictionary & concordance
A great and powerful sea creature, also described as a serpent or dragon.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Job 41:1
Complete exact-word concordance
CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
¶ Canst thou draw out Leuiathan with an hooke? or his tongue with a corde which thou lettest downe?
1611 marginal noteThat is, a whale or a whirlepoole.
1611 marginal noteHeb. which thou drownest.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Thou brakest the heads of Leuiathan in pieces, and gauest him to bee meat to the people inhabiting the wildernesse.
There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
There goe the shippes; there is that Leuiathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
1611 marginal noteHeb. formed.
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.
¶ In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sworde shall punish Leuiathan the piercing serpent, euen Leuiathan that crooked serpent, and hee shall slay the dragon that is in the Sea.
1611 marginal noteOr, crossing like a barre.
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