what is a Leviathan?

[Schadenfroh]

i did a little searching and is it some sort of sea monster?

 

[brunswickite]

yea thats what i thought it was

 

[pennylane]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
yea thats what i thought it was

 

[TuxDave]

Based on Magic the Gathering, it's a giant lobster looking thing. Oh... and it's blue has 10/10 trampling too.

 

[xEDIT409]

Gotta Catch Um All!

 

[MichaelD]

That's easy.

Rosie O'Donnell is a Leviathan.

 

[chocobaR]

Yeah it's some sort of a sea monster...

The Biblical Leviathan is often considered to be a demon associated with Satan or the Devil, and held by some to be the same monster as Rahab (Isaiah 51:9). The Biblical references to Leviathan appear to have evolved from a Canaanite legend involving a confrontation between Baal and a seven headed sea monster which Baal defeats with the aid of Mot, and they also resemble a Babylonian myth in which the storm god Marduk slays the sea monster Tiamat and creates the earth and sky from the two halves of her corpse.

Leviathan

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

It's a hippo -

Edit, oops, thats a Behemoth

Leviathan is a crocodile.

 

[Shawn]

A living ship... at least on Farscape.

 

[glen]

A Hebrew seamonster.
Hobbes wrote an essay talking about government and used this term.

 

[cainsdive]

Yes, a sea monster, or a very large object.:beer:

 

[Jadow]

its a sea monster that hides inside of of an old bottle of wine inside a sunken russian ship.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: glen
A Hebrew seamonster.
Hobbes wrote an essay talking about government and used this term.

True, and I have also heard it used for anything very large or daunting.

 

[secretanchitman]

i originally thought that a Leviathan was a huge sea dragon who was water based, from what I saw in the video game Final Fantasy 8.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: BastulaJr
i originally thought that a Leviathan was a huge sea dragon who was water based, from what I saw in the video game Final Fantasy 8.

We're not quite talking video games here...

BTW it first appeared in the FF4, I believe.

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Cyberian

Originally posted by: glen
A Hebrew sea monster.
Hobbes wrote an essay talking about government and used this term.

True, and I have also heard it used for anything very large or daunting.

Right.
So, the origin of the word is the Hebrew term for a certain mythical sea monster. This is ancient.
Then Hobbes used it in his essay. Middle Ages ~1651
He was writing about a large government bureaucracy, and argues that it is necessary.
So, now in modern times we use it to in 2 ways:

One to refer to a large bureaucracy, but it is pejorative (negative) ie., the congressional levitation, the Hollywood, leviathan, the General Motors Leviathan

Two to refer to anything physically large ie., the mother ship.

 

[BeauJangles]

It's the title of Hobbes' premier work on society.

Yes, it's also a mythical creature.

 

[amnesiac]

It's a Sith Battleship.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

It was Dave Batista's name in OVW

 

[fatbaby]

Its the name of Malek's Sith Interdictor in Starwars Knights of the old republic.

 

[Broohaha]

it's what happened when levia went to the beach.

ba-dum chishhhhhhhhh

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: fatbaby
Its the name of Malek's Sith Interdictor in Starwars Knights of the old republic.

Technically it wasn't Malek's right? It belonged to the captain who killed Carth's family

 

[PCMarine]

It was in Total Annihiliation

 

[fatbaby]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello

Originally posted by: fatbaby
Its the name of Malek's Sith Interdictor in Starwars Knights of the old republic.

Technically it wasn't Malek's right? It belonged to the captain who killed Carth's family

oh yeah, it actually belongs to that Admiral Saul who sucks so much even Calo can pwn him.

 

[NoReMoRsE]

Goliath Online!

Sorry, I just felt like saying that...