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what is a Leviathan?

Based on Magic the Gathering, it's a giant lobster looking thing. Oh... and it's blue has 10/10 trampling too.
 
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.
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Leviathan
 
its a sea monster that hides inside of of an old bottle of wine inside a sunken russian ship.
 
Originally posted by: glen
A Hebrew seamonster.
Hobbes wrote an essay talking about government and used this term.
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True, and I have also heard it used for anything very large or daunting.
 
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.
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We're not quite talking video games here...

BTW it first appeared in the FF4, I believe.
 
Originally posted by: Cyberian
Originally posted by: glen
A Hebrew sea monster.
Hobbes wrote an essay talking about government and used this term.
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True, and I have also heard it used for anything very large or daunting.
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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.
 
Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Originally posted by: fatbaby
Its the name of Malek's Sith Interdictor in Starwars Knights of the old republic.
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Technically it wasn't Malek's right? It belonged to the captain who killed Carth's family
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oh yeah, it actually belongs to that Admiral Saul who sucks so much even Calo can pwn him.
 
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