Usually means: Extremely large or powerful entity.
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  1. behemoth: Merriam-Webster
  2. behemoth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. behemoth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. behemoth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. behemoth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Behemoth, behemoth: Wordnik
  7. behemoth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. behemoth: Wiktionary
  9. behemoth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. behemoth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. behemoth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Behemoth, behemoth: Dictionary.com
  13. behemoth: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Behemoth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. behemoth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. behemoth: Rhymezone
  18. Behemoth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. behemoth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. behemoth: FreeDictionary.org
  21. behemoth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. behemoth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. behemoth: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Behemoth: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. behemoth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. behemoth: Encyclopedia

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  1. BEHEMOTH: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Behemoth: Easton Bible
  2. Behemoth: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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noun:  (biblical) A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24.
noun:  (by extension) Any great and mighty monster.
noun:  (figurative) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.

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