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leviathan 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 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 Assyriann and
the Babylonian.