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God's flex in the Book of Job: a beast too vast for any leash.
means Something enormous and powerful — a giant of its kind, whether a creature, a corporation, or a machine.
from Straight from the Hebrew of the Book of Job, where behemoth (בְּהֵמוֹת) names a colossal beast God parades before Job to humble him. The word looks like an intensive or pluralized form of behemah, 'beast' or 'animal' — so literally something like 'the beast of beasts,' a creature so vast the very grammar swells to hold it. Scholars have long argued over what it actually was — a hippopotamus, an elephant, a mythic monster — but the name sailed into English through the Bible meaning, simply, a thing too big to ignore.
- biblical origin
- Named in Job 40 as God's mightiest land creature
- likely model
- Scholars suspect a hippo or elephant inspired it
- hebrew plural
- The word is grammatically plural for emphasis
- sea twin
- Pairs with Leviathan, its oceanic counterpart
- modern use
- Now means any enormous, unstoppable thing
blue whale — largest animal ever to exist on earth, up to 200 tons and 100 feet long
great pyramid of giza — constructed around 2560 bce, originally 481 feet tall and weighs approximately 6.5 million tons