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Today's word is behemoth, also pronounced to be a myth and spell B-E-H- h 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.