Leviathan: This hebrew word occurs six times in the Bible. It comes from a root word meaning "twist,"
"coil" or "wind." We are citing two of them.
Job 3 :1-17 ...Job opened his mouth and CURSED the day of his birth. He said: "May the DAY of my birth perish, and the NIGHT it was said:"A boy is born!" That DAY may IT turn to DARKNESS; may GOD above not care about it; may no light shine upon it. May DARKNESS and DEEP SHADOW claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may BLACKNESS overwhelm its light.
That NIGHT -may thick DARKNESS seize it; may it not be included among the DAYS of the YEAR nor be entered in any of the MONTHS. May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.
May those who curse DAYS curse that DAY, those who are READY to ROUSE LEVIATHAN.
May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn, for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb? Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed? For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins, with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of the day? There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
LEVIATHAN is mentioned in connection with water (the power of the mind). The power, inherited to the waters, appears to signify some form of aquatic creature, of great proportions and strength, although not necessarily of one specific kind.
Psalm 104:25-26 There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both large and small. There the ships go to and fro, and the LEVIATHAN, which YOU formed to frolic there.
The creature is described here as cavorting in the sea where ships travel giving the impression of being like a huge whale .... ///
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