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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 656 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEHEMOTH (the intensive plural of the See also:Hebrew b'hernah, a beast) , the See also:animal mentioned in the See also:book of See also:Job (ch. xl. 15), probably the See also:hippopotamus, which in See also:ancient times was found in See also:Egypt below the cataracts of Syene. The word may be used in Job as typical of the primeval See also:king of See also:land animals, as See also:leviathan of the See also:water animals. The See also:modern use expresses the See also:idea of a very large and strong animal.

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