So what do you think about dinosaurs in the book of Job i mean check out job 41 and it talkes about the?

Question

leviathan and later the behomouth or something like that.. it says the leviathan was also a fire breathing dragon lol thats crazy...

Answer 1

The behemoth was probably the hippopotamus, and the leviathan a crocodile.

BEHEMOTH

(Be·he´moth).

The designation "Behemoth," appearing at Job 40:15, has been variously viewed as (1) a derivative of an Egyptian word for "water ox," (2) a word possibly of Assyrian origin meaning "monster," and (3) an intensified plural of the Hebrew word behe·mah´ (beast; domestic animal) that is understood to denote "great beast" or "huge beast." In the Greek Septuagint the word the·ri´a (wild beasts) translates the Hebrew behe·mohth´. Evidently, though, a single animal is meant, as is indicated by the fact that the description given of Behemoth is not that of several creatures but of only one, generally considered to be the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius). In fact, a number of Bible translations (AT, La, Ro, NW, JB, RS) use the word "hippopotamus" in the main text or in footnotes to identify the creature referred to by God

LEVIATHAN

[Heb., liw·ya·than´].

This Hebrew word occurs six times in the Bible. It is believed to come from a root word meaning "wreath"; hence the name indicates something that is "wreathed," or "gathered into folds." The word is transliterated in most Bible translations.

Since, with the exception of Job 3:8, the references mention water in connection with it, Leviathan appears to signify some form of aquatic creature of great proportions and strength, although not necessarily of one specific kind. Psalm 104:25, 26 describes it as cavorting in the sea where ships travel, and for this reason many suggest that the term here applies to some type of whale. Though whales are rare in the Mediterranean, they are not unknown there, and parts of two whale skeletons can be found in a museum at Beirut in Lebanon. An American Translation here says "crocodile" instead of Leviathan. Additionally, the word "sea" (yam) by itself is not determinative inasmuch as in Hebrew it can refer to a large inland body of water such as the Sea of Galilee (Sea of Chinnereth) (Nu 34:11; Jos 12:3), or even to the river Nile (Isa 19:5) or the Euphrates.-Jer 51:36.

The description of "Leviathan" at Job 41:1-34 aptly fits the crocodile, and the "sea" of verse 31 may refer to a river such as the Nile or another body of fresh water. It should be noted, however, that some crocodiles, as the Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus), are found along the seacoast and at times go out into the sea some distance from land.


You have me lost on the 'fire breathing' part.

Answer 2

In fact, I think the great dinosaurs (such as the t-rex) were here perhaps millions of years before man came on the scene. The Bible supplies no proof of this, but there are ways of understanding the creation narrative that permit this view. Here's one of them:

The original creation is described in Gen. 1:1. The six days described in subsequent verses may have taken place millions or even billions of years after the original creation. In other words, God made the universe billions of years ago. He put all kinds of creatures, including dinosaurs, on this planet. The earth, at that time and for millennia to follow, was "without form and void"---i.e., not fit to serve as a habitat for mankind. So, at some point, perhaps millions of years after a comet hit the earth, destroying the dinosaurs and filling the atmosphere with debris and causing unparalleled catastrophic events such as massive tsunamis and earthquakes and flooding of huge land masses, God began clearing away the debris from the atmosphere allowing sunlight to pass through---"Let there be light." He caused further atmospheric changes---"Thus God made the firmament." He caused the submerged land to rise up out of the waters, thus forming the oceans and the great land masses---"Let the waters...be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And on it goes. On the sixth day, He made man in His image and after His likeness and gave him dominion over all the earth and its many creatures.

Answer 3

The Bible says that his breath kindled coals...
If you stick a air hose in a oily rag and turn on the air, the rag will burst into flames because of the extra air.
I think that is what Leviathan could do.

Answer 4

I think those references are to demons or some other imaginary creature.The Bible doesn't give any clear descriptions of actual dinosaurs because they had die out long before the authors wrote the fictional book known as the Bible.

Answer 5

It means that you have discovered yet another in a very long list of myths, fables and fairy tales in the Bible.

Don't believe everything you read or hear.

Answer 6

What do I think? That it probably was a good bed time story 1000 years ago.

Answer 7

Komodo dragons perhaps, large reptiles like alligators or crocs...sheer fantasy? some reptiles spit acid, it would burn.
Who knows, who cares!

Answer 8

It is a metaphor.