HOW TO PRONOUNCE
behemoth
/bəˈhiməθ/
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bih-HEE-muth: bring out the long ee.
Keep both surrounding syllables light. End with the unvoiced th of “thin,” letting air pass between the tongue and teeth.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The crane lifted the steel behemoth onto the platform.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does behemoth mean?
noun
- A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24.
- Any great and mighty monster.
- (figuratively) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.
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As to the other great animals mentioned in Scripture, he is so rationalistic as to admit that behemoth was an elephant and leviathan a whale.
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.”
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People talked of it as of that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub.
The brute was advertised most extensively and ingeniously as "the great behemoth of the Scriptures," and thousands of scientific men, biblical students, clergymen and others, besides the great host of the common people, flocked to see it.
Then it is necessary to manoeuvre a rope on the carcass, often a matter of great difficulty, for the other hippos bellow and snort and try to live up to the circus posters of the Blood-sweating Behemoth of Holy Writ, and the crocodiles like dark meat very much.