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> Leviathan was always a sea sepant, the only mention of it being a whale is the kings james bible and a real prehistoric whale named after it called livyatan.
That’s King James singular and.. no? There are 4 mentions:
(There’s also one further mention of לִוְיָתָן in the Hebrew Bible which is rendered as “mourning” in the KJV)
No mention of whales in any of these (whale comes up twice elsewhere as a translation of תַּנִּין), and in fact it specifically says serpent in Isaiah. Livyatan is just an alternate rendering of לִוְיָתָן (also liwyāṯān, Livyathan, liwyathan etc.) In the Septuagint it is rendered with the Greek word for dragon.
> Leviathan was always a sea sepant, the only mention of it being a whale is the kings james bible and a real prehistoric whale named after it called livyatan.
That’s King James singular and.. no? There are 4 mentions:
Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou didst break the heads of the dragons in the waters. Thou didst break the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
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.
(There’s also one further mention of לִוְיָתָן in the Hebrew Bible which is rendered as “mourning” in the KJV)
No mention of whales in any of these (whale comes up twice elsewhere as a translation of תַּנִּין), and in fact it specifically says serpent in Isaiah. Livyatan is just an alternate rendering of לִוְיָתָן (also liwyāṯān, Livyathan, liwyathan etc.) In the Septuagint it is rendered with the Greek word for dragon.