Does Job 40:15 describe a dinosaur? How about Job 41? There's an animal of great strength in the following:

Question

Numbers 23:22, Numbers 24:8 and Job 39:9. I've seen single-horned animals from Africa, and they don't have "great strength", could the translators have gotten the Hebrew word re'eym wrong? Is this a dinosaur?

The word "dragon" appears 19 times in the Bible. The word "dragon" occurs frequently in extra biblical works, not as a mythical creature, but as if everybody knows what it is. Marco Polo's account of his trip to China maintains the Chinese emperor was raising dragons to pull his chariot.

There have been numerous historical references to "sea serpents". Do you think these are salt-water crocodiles?

Do you think they're salt water crocodiles because you know they exist or because they fit the description better.

If they don't fit the description better, are you an honest expositor, or do you have ulterior motives?

Do you accept historical records that intend to be historical records, or do you screen history using your own perception of reality?

Answer 1

yes i believe job is describing dinosaurs but nobody believes me

Answer 2

at the moment this grow to be delivered to my interest. If we study those verses, and considering the atheists say that it is only a guy's observations, there can in trouble-free terms be one end, that it is a dinosaur. (for sure, taking it as God's note supplies an similar end to Christians) No different animal has a tail that suits this description and that is going for some thing else too. So, in the adventure that they say that we did not stay mutually, then the question is the position did this description come from? an similar is going for South American pottery that depicts an similar topic? 15 See now the behemoth, which I made with thee: he eateth grass as an ox. 16 Behold now, his power is in his loins, and his stress is in the muscular tissues of his abdomen. 17 He bendeth his tail like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are woven mutually. 18 His bones are tubes of bronze, his contributors are like bars of iron.

Answer 3

Dragon might be better translated as jackal or crocodile. Behemoth thought to be a herbivore, a hippo maybe. All of these are modern ideas for what might have been. Your idea is a good one, but the timing seems a little off according to what I have found out so far. Another thing to consider, (Job 40:19) Behemoth is accredited with having had the "chief of the ways of God". Perhaps behemoth is the same beast we hear of in Revelation?

Answer 4

I agree. If you are to take the passage in Job at face value, either the people in his day were all incredible wimps, or the animals being described were of a size and fierceness like no living creature on the earth today.

Answer 5

There are no dinosaurs in the Bible. No one who was around at time it was written had ever heard of a dinosaur. And, most importantly, dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Except for the ones that evolved into birds. They're still here - and they're in the Bible. Isn't that neat?

Answer 6

i would question that as well, its interesting for the most part, and many things now a adays have been twisted and turned around throughout the ages... ever play whipser down the lane? kinda like that! as for the dragon part- if there really were fairy tale big dragons, wow, or maybe its just big komodo dragons????

Answer 7

The word "re'em" means an oryx.

Where does the word "dragon" appear? Certainly not in the old testament, unless your translation is really bad.

Answer 8

You have to remember the Greeks and Romans both displayed large fossil bones in their cities, so they had some idea that they existed. This accounts for them being incorporated into myths.

Answer 9

I hadn't thought of it, but it just could be that Job lived before the flood. If he did, then he would have been living in the time of the dinosaurs. (frankly, I'm not going to spend a lot of time studying it though)