Who or What is the leviathan....?

Question

I already know the answer but i'm curious as to what others think it is.

Answer 1

This name has been given to many things in many different cultures. Usually it refers to an apolyptic creature from the depths that wreaks havoc upon mortals. It is seen as aprt of Armageddon in some interpretations, as well as being a divine creature that bids God' wrath. In addition, some philospoher wrote about a leviathan and I do not remember for sure, but I think he said it was man, in his ability to go against God and nature.

My main understanding is a mythical creature from the depths of the ocean that was locked away but could be called upon to do the bidding of various forces. It was also a card in the CCG Magic: The Gathering and it was pretty much the same.

Answer 2

Leviathan was a dinosaur back when Job was still around. Can also be considered or represented as Satan or as a dragon, even a sea serpent.

Job 41:1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Psa 74:14 Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Psa 104:26 There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.

Isa 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

In the book of Job, both Behemoth and Leviathan are listed alongside a number of other animals that are clearly mundane, such as goats, eagles, and hawks, leading many Christian scholars to surmise that Behemoth and Leviathan may also be mundane creatures. The animal most often proposed for Leviathan is the Nile crocodile.

Like the Leviathan, the Nile crocodile is aquatic, scaly, and possesses fierce teeth. Job 41:18 states that Leviathan's eyes "are like the eyelids of the morning". Some have compared this verse to a crocodile's eyes, which rise out of the water before the rest of its head, invoking the image of the sun rising over the horizon.

The major difficulty of this view is that in Job chapter 41 Leviathan is described as breathing fire like a dragon.

Another difficulty is that the crocodile does not seem to fit the descriptions of Leviathan given in other Bible passages, e.g. it does not have multiple heads.

Another theory, often cited by cryptozoology, is that Leviathan was an aquatic reptile, such as a Plesiosaurus.

During sea-faring's Golden Age, European sailors saw Leviathan as a gigantic whale-like sea monster, usually a sea serpent, that devoured whole ships by swimming around the vessels so quickly as to create a whirlpool.

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Answer 3

Leviathan was a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It is one of the most famous and influential books of political philosophy. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the structure of society (as represented figuratively by the frontispiece, showing the state giant made up of individuals), as is evidenced by the full title "Leviathan or the matter, forme and power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civil

Answer 4

The term "Leviathan" is often used as a generic term for anything large and all consuming.

The word leviathan has become synonymous with any large monster or creature. In Modern Hebrew, it simply means "whale".

Answer 5

The Leviathan is a timeless serpent whose kingdom is water, Infernal Lord of the West, who brought together Samael and Lilith to beget Tubal-Quayin. Representative of the gateway to the subconscious, and the power of ensorcelling "external" forces to integrate them consciously into the Adept of the Left Hand Path.

Answer 6

Please IM with the correct answer, if you know what it is.

I think that it could possibly be a crocodile- or a dinosaur. Do you mean Leviathan, as in the one referred to in the 40th Chapter of Job?

Leviathan, I think, may also mean Satan- when alluded to elsewhere in the Bible.

Answer 7

Several items in the Bible. One is a crocodile, but what directly applies to us is that Leviathan is the world organization or empire that will soon war with God and his worshipers.

Answer 8

Well, by definition a leviathan is a gigantic sized fish. Not sure if it symbolizes anything else though.

Answer 9

Supposedly a mythical sea monster. Some biblical scholars (e.g., H. Avalos) think it was actually a deity that appears in the polytheistic era of Judaism.

Answer 10

The Water Element Prince of Hell