Hebrew n-m-t · H3882
לִוְיָתָן
livyathanliv-yaw-thawn'
Leviathan
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: livyâthân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3882is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3882
a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea-monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Babylon
The King James renders it: leviathan, mourning.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
livyathan is rendered "Leviathan". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 3:8לִוְיָתָֽן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Leviathan6
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לִוְיָה | livyah | wreath | Uses2 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לִוְיָתָ֑ן1
- לִ֝וְיָתָ֗ן1
- לִוְיָתָ֣ן1
- לִוְיָתָן֙1
- לִוְיָתָ֔ן1
- לִוְיָתָֽן׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular6HNtmsa
Job
two uses
Psalms
two uses
You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
- לִוְיָתָ֑ןlivyatannoun · masculine singulartagged: Leviathan
There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.
- לִ֝וְיָתָ֗ןlivyatannoun · masculine singulartagged: Leviathan
Isaiah
two uses
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
- לִוְיָתָן֙livyatannoun · masculine singulartagged: Leviathan
- לִוְיָתָ֔ןlivyatannoun · masculine singulartagged: Leviathan
The letters
Gematria 496· 1,146 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.