It's the word of the day for August 9th.
Today's word is behemoth, also pronounced behemoth, and spelled B-E-H-E-M-O-T-H.
Behemoth is a noun.
It's something of monstrous size, power, or appearance.
behemoth usually capitalized is also the name of a mighty animal described in the biblical book of job here's the word used in a sentence from the new york times the author recounts how his grandfather turned a family spinach farm into an industrial behemoth and exposes the greed and malfeasance behind the prosperous facade in the biblical book of job Behemoth is the name of a powerful,
grass-eating,
river-dwelling beast with bones likened to bronze pipes and limbs likened to iron bars.
Scholars have speculated that the biblical creature was inspired by the hippopotamus,
but details about the creature's exact nature are vague.
The word first passed from the Hebrew word into late Latin,
the Latin used by writers from the 3rd to 6th centuries,
where, according to 15th century English poet and monk John Lydgate,
it referred to a beast rude, full of cursedness.
In modern English, behemoth functions as an evocative term for something of monstrous size,
power, or appearance.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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