Leviathan

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Possibly a crocodile

• Job 41 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope? Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly? Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life? Can you pet him like a bird or put him on… (whole chapter)
• Psalm 104:26 There the ships pass, and Leviathan, which You formed to frolic there.

The crooked (R. V.) serpent.

• Isaiah 27:1 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.

Figurative

• Psalm 74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.