<P> The Revised Standard Version of the Bible suggests in a footnote to Job 41: 1 that Leviathan may be a name for the crocodile, and in a footnote to Job 40: 15, that Behemoth may be a name for the hippopotamus . Young Earth Creationists have also identified Leviathan and Behemoth with dinosaurs . </P> <P> The word Leviathan has come to refer to any sea monster, and from the early 17th century has also been used of overwhelmingly powerful people or things (comparable to Behemoth or Juggernaut), influentially so by Hobbes' book (1651). </P> <P> As a term for sea monster, it has also been used of great whales in particular, e.g. in Herman Melville's Moby - Dick . In Modern Hebrew, the word now simply means "whale". </P> <P> Lord Tennyson wrote a sonnet, "The Kraken" (1830), which describes the massive creature that dwells at the bottom of the sea . </P>

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