ON “LEVIATHAN”
Alludes to an enormous animal or amazing machine, as a rule of a sort related with water. Leviathan is a water beast, however, the Bible references propose that the name was given to different kinds of water animal, from the crocodile to the whale. “Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?” Job 41:1 KJV see also Psalm 74:14, 104:26; Isaiah 27:1