Behemoth

 WORD OF THE DAY
behemoth / noun / bih-HEE-muth
 
Definition
1 (often capitalized, religion): a mighty animal described in Job 40:15–24 as an example of the power of God
2: something of monstrous size, power, or appearance
2: something of monstrous size, power, or appearance
 
Examples
In his previous position, with Wintershall Holding, a German crude oil and natural gas producer, Seele had worked with Gazprom, the Russian natural gas behemoth, and was a strong supporter of the Nord Stream pipeline.
— Souad Mekhennet, Washington Post, 5 July 2022

The behemoth is now the fifth-longest superyacht in the global fleet and one of the biggest in the world in terms of volume.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 July 2022

 

Did You Know

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 Hebrew into Latin, where, according to 15th century English poet and monk John Lydgate it referred to "a beast rude full of cursednesse."
In modern English, behemoth mostly functions as an evocative term for something of monstrous size, power, or appearance.