late 14c., "sea monster, sea serpent," sometimes regarded as a form of Satan, from Late Latin leviathan, from Hebrew livyathan "dragon, serpent, huge sea animal," of unknown origin [..]

Leviathan [N] [T] [B] [S]a transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning "twisted," "coiled." In Job 3:8 , Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon [..]

n. Any large animal, as a whale.

In Hebrew, a huge sea creature; in political philosophy, a book published by Thomas Hobbes in 1651. Hobbes' philosophy was directly influenced by the chaos and uncertainty of the Civil War era. I [..]

The U.S. military’s warfighting capacity and the high-performance combat troops, weapon systems, aircraft, armor, and ships associated with all-out war against traditionally defined opponents (i.e., other great-power militaries). This is the force America created to defend the West against the Soviet threat, now transformed from its industrial-era [..]

a transliterated Hebrew word (livyathan), meaning "twisted," "coiled." In Job 3:8, Revised Version, and marg. of Authorized Version, it denotes the dragon which, according to Easte [..]

Biblical name for a marine monster. Name has been given to the Egyptian crocodile, to a large Mediterranean cetacean, and to a sea serpent.

A gigantic sea animal.

A gigantic sea animal.

A gigantic sea animal.

(Hebrew לויתן or לווייתן) A Biblical symbol mentioned throughout the Judeo-Christian scriptures and thoroughly described in Job 41. Like all other scriptural symbols, it has a variety of meanings.

The all-powerful kind of state that Hobbes thought "was necessary to solve the problem of social order." -- Cass R. Sunstein, "The Road from Serfdom" The New Republ [..]

Very large; gargantuan.

From Hebrew לִוְיָתָן (Liwyatan), derived from לִוְיָה (liwyah) meaning "garland, wreath". This is the name of an enormous sea monster mentioned in the Old Testament.