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Job 40

Job 40:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold now φbehemoth
bhemowth (Hebrew #930)
a water-ox, i.e. the hippopotamus or Nile- horse
KJV usage: Behemoth.
Pronounce: be-hay-mohth'
Origin: in form a plural or 929, but really a singular of Egyptian derivation
, which I made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
with thee; he eateth
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
grass
chatsiyr (Hebrew #2682)
grass; also a leek (collectively)
KJV usage: grass, hay, herb, leek.
Pronounce: khaw-tseer'
Origin: perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard
as an ox
baqar (Hebrew #1241)
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
KJV usage: beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Pronounce: baw-kawr'
Origin: from 1239
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or, the elephant, as some think.

More on:

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Behemoth,
Elephant,
Grass,
Ox; Oxen

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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behemoth.[Behêmôwth ,] Perhaps an extinct dinosaur, maybe a Diplodocus or Brachiosaurus, the exact meaning is unknown. Some translate as elephant or hippopotamus but from the description in
Job 40:15‑24• 15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
 16Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.
 17He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
 18His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
 19He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
 20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play.
 21He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
 22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
 23Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
 24He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. (Job 40:15‑24)
, this is patently absurd.which.
Gen. 1:24‑26• 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
 26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:24‑26)
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Job 40:20• 20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. (Job 40:20)
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Job 39:8• 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing. (Job 39:8)
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Psa. 104:14• 14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; (Psa. 104:14)
• Behemoth—resistless strength (vers. 15-24). (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• We are brought thus to hearken to the application by Jehovah of the lesson of creature-strength and pride, as exhibited and typified in the behemoth and leviathan. Our present section deals with the former of these creatures; the next, with the latter. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)
• Students are agreed that the first beast is the hippopotamus, the model of resistless force and strength. It is one of Job’s fellow-creatures, but how transcendently mighty. (“Job 38-42:6” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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See now the behemothc, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox.

JND Translation Notes

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Perhaps the hippopotamus.