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plural behemoths
(biblical) A great and mighty beast which God shows to Job in Job 40:15–24. quotations examples
⸿ Beholde now Behemoth which I made with thee, hee eateth graſſe as an oxe. Loe now, his ſtrength is in his loynes, and his force is in the nauell of his belly. Hee moueth his taile like a Cedar: the ſinewes of his ſtones are wrapt together. His bones are as ſtrong pieces of braſſe: his bones are like barres of iron.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 40:15–18, column 1
(by extension) Any great and mighty monster. quotations examples
Next she doused the smouldering troll with the contents of the restaurant's fire extinguisher, hoping the icy powder wouldn't revive the sleeping behemoth.
2001, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, page 58
(figurative) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions. quotations examples
The diehards who did turn out were at least rewarded with a first sight of Jon Parkin, the behemoth striker signed from Preston, who scored a stunning goal on his debut at Norwich last weekend.
2011 January 18, Joe Lovejoy, “Cardiff City 0 Stoke City 2”, in Guardian Online
The wide access corridors passed slowly, the conduits and pipes like the circulatory system of some vast planetary behemoth.
2012, James S. A. Corey, Gods of Risk
We are the workers who built Alphabet. We write code, clean offices, serve food, drive buses, test self-driving cars and do everything needed to keep this behemoth running.
2021 January 4, Parul Koul, Chewy Shaw, “We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.”, in The New York Times
Hiei now loomed into the action, causing the leading U.S. destroyers to scatter before the oncoming behemoth lest they be run down.
2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 14:35 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 17 October 2022