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leviathan 音標拼音: [ləv'ɑɪəθən] n. 海中怪獸,巨物 海中怪獸,巨物 leviathan n 1: the largest or most massive thing of its kind; " it was a leviathan among redwoods"; " they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks" 2: monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old TestamentLeviathan \ Le* vi" a* than\ ( l[- e]* v[ imac]"[. a]* than), n. [ Heb. livy[= a] th[= a] n.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture. [ 1913 Webster] Note: It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The whale, or a great whale. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for " leviathan": argosy, bark, boat, bottom, bucket, craft, cyclopean, dinosaur, elephant, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, hippo, hippopotamus, hooker, hulk, hull, immense, jumbo, keel, mammoth, mastodon, monster, packet, ship, tub, vessel, watercraft, whaleLeviathan a transliterated Hebrew word ( livyathan), meaning " twisted," " coiled." In Job 3: 8, Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Eastern tradition, is an enemy of light; in 41: 1 the crocodile is meant; in Ps. 104: 26 it " denotes any large animal that moves by writhing or wriggling the body, the whale, the monsters of the deep." This word is also used figuratively for a cruel enemy, as some think " the Egyptian host, crushed by the divine power, and cast on the shores of the Red Sea" ( Ps. 74: 14). As used in Isa. 27: 1, " leviathan the piercing [ R. V. ' swift'] serpent, even leviathan that crooked [ R. V. marg. ' winding'] serpent," the word may probably denote the two empires, the Assyrian and the Babylonian.
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