Category:Behemoth

Be"he*moth, n. Etym: [Heb. behem, fr. Egyptian P-ehe-maut hippopotamus.]

Defn: An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15- 24.

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Behemoth - (Job 40:15). Some have supposed this to be an Egyptian word meaning a "water-ox." The Revised Version has here in the margin "hippopotamus," which is probably the correct rendering of the word. The word occurs frequently in Scripture, but, except here, always as a common name, and translated "beast" or "cattle."