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Question by  Sorthum (17)

In the Old Testament's Book of Job, what is the "leviathan?"

 
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Answer by  lonelywolf (2117)

In modern Hebrew, Leviathan means "whale. " It was likely a reference to a very large sea creature, possibly a whale or giant squid. Some scholars have argued the leviathan is a Nile crocodile (or, on the fringes of scholarship, a dinosaur). No one alive today knows for sure, though.

 
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Answer by  rbiales (3441)

No one knows for sure but conjecture leads people to believe that what is being described is a deep sea whale.

 
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