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title: בְּהֵמוֹת — behemoth · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בְּהֵמוֹת (930), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: behemoth. BDB 1906: n.m. behemoth hippopotamus. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בְּהֵמוֹת

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«בְּהֵמוֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **behemoth** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 930 · **BDB:** בְּהֵמוֹת

### Glosses

Behemoth (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

behemoth [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/930/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. behemoth hippopotamus [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/930/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. behemoth, i.e. hippopotamus (appar. pl. intens. of foreg.; according to Di Jb 40:15 cf. De Is 30:6 from an (assumed) Egyptian p-ehemau, ox of the water) Jb 40:15 (on identity, cf. further BoHieroz. iii. 705); prob. also ψ 73:22 בְּהֵמוֹת הָיִיתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ a behemoth was I with (toward) thee (so Hi De; Che beasts); according to De Or also in בַּהֲמוֹת Is 30:6 the burden of the behemoth of the south (supposed to be a designation of Egypt; but this unlikely, cf. Che Di, read therefore) rather beasts of the south, viz. of Judah.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בְּהֵמוֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/930/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 40:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.15/)

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הִנֵּה־נָ֣א בְ֭הֵמוֹת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי עִמָּ֑ךְ חָ֝צִ֗יר כַּבָּקָ֥ר יֹאכֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* there! please Behemoth which I.made with you grass like (the) ox it.eats

*JPS 1917:* Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

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