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Job 40:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

behemoth: αδξεϊ: strong:H930, 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, this is patently absurd.

which: Genesis 1:24-26

he: Job 40:20, Job 39:8; Psalms 104:14

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