Leviathan, a term that occurs five times in Scripture, in every case but one (Ps. civ. 26) denoting the crocodile. Some think that in Isa. xxvii. 1 it represents the great python which appears in Egyptian monuments.
Leviathan
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 598
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