. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . rkably solid, with bony is a single row of conical, pointed teeth ineach jaw, locking into each other. The crocodileis said to attain a length of twenty-five feet. Ahuge, fierce, cunning, carnivorous reptile, it iagreatly dreaded in the hot regions of which it is anative. It was worshipped by the ancient Egyp-tians. Job iii. 8 is beset with difficulties. Therecan, however, be little doubt that the margin is thecorrect rendering. There appears to be some refer-ence to those who practised enchantments. Thedetailed description of leviathan
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . rkably solid, with bony is a single row of conical, pointed teeth ineach jaw, locking into each other. The crocodileis said to attain a length of twenty-five feet. Ahuge, fierce, cunning, carnivorous reptile, it iagreatly dreaded in the hot regions of which it is anative. It was worshipped by the ancient Egyp-tians. Job iii. 8 is beset with difficulties. Therecan, however, be little doubt that the margin is thecorrect rendering. There appears to be some refer-ence to those who practised enchantments. Thedetailed description of leviathan given in Job belongs to the crocodile. The Egyp-tian crocodile also is certainly the leviathan in 14. The leviathan of Ps. civ. 26 Mr. Hough-ton regards as some animal of the whale great and wide sea must be the Mediter-ranean, and the whale is found there. The OrcaGladiator (Gray), or common grampus, and thePhysalus Antiquorum (Gray), or the Rorqual of theMediterranean (Cuvier), are two species of the. Crocodile of the Nile {Crocodilus vulgaris).—(Fbn.) 1 whale family not uncommon in the Mediterranean,and anciently the species may have been morenumerous. The crocodile is a fresh-water animal;but, as allied reptiles frequent salt water, the croco-dile may anciently have been found in the Mediter-ranean. There is some uncertainty about the levia-than of Is. xxvii. 1. As the term leviathan is evi-dently used in no limited sense, not improbably leviathan the piercing serpent, or leviathan thecrooked serpent, may denote some species of thegreat rock-snakes (Boa family) which are common LEV LEV 547 in S. and W. Africa, perhaps the Horlulia Sebce,which Schneider, under the synonym Boa hiero-glyphica, appears to identify with the huge serpentrepresented on the Egyptian monuments. Mr. R. (in Kitto) regards leviathan as always = thecrocodile ; Mr. Gosse (in Fairbairn) regards it asspecifically = the crocodile, though perhaps in alater age
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