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behemoth

[ bih-hee-muhth, bee-uh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in the Bible.
any creature or thing of monstrous size or power:
The army's new tank is a behemoth.
The cartel is a behemoth that small business owners fear.

behemoth

/ bɪˈhiːmɒθ /

1350–1400; from Hebrew bəhēmōth, an augmentative plural of bəhēmāh beast; replacing Middle English bemoth

C14: from Hebrew běhēmōth , plural of běhēmāh beast

It was a decades-old howitzer Burns called a “multi-ton behemoth” and the atomic shell had a range of only ten miles.

After all, his next project is naming a street for Josef Brodsky, an even more outspoken enemy of the Soviet behemoth.

Ours is the Caiman model, a 6x6 behemoth that weighs in at over 15 tons and makes Humvees shrivel up with feelings of inadequacy.

What a demon, a behemoth, evil just seems to be seeping through him.

Colbert and Lampkin are not alone in their distaste for the online behemoth.

It goes to show that our doctrine is of God, else "behemoth would lie under shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens."

A great behemoth of a war-captain; one of the fiercest, inflexiblest, ruggedest creatures ever made in the form of man.

In the first place, it is evident that we may dismiss from our minds the idea that the Behemoth was an extinct pachyderm.

Assuming, therefore, that the Behemoth is identical with the hippopotamus, we will proceed with the description.

All created beings, from Behemoth to a butterfly, dread and fly (as best they may) that universal butcher—man.

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