What does the Leviathan symbolize in the Hebrew Bible?

The ancients thought the sky and heavens were a great sea and that rain dropped from windows that were set into the heavens. In this great sea, there lived creatures such as the Leviathan, which is (as we now know it) the seven stared constellation of Draco that revolves close to the pole star. read more

In the Hebrew Bible the word livyathan, which is, with the foregoing exception, always left untranslated in the Authorized Version, is found only in the following passages: ( Job 3: 8; 41: 1; Psalms 74: 14; 104: 26; Isaiah 27: 1) In the margin of ( Job 3: 8) and text of ( Job 41: 1) the crocodile is most clearly the animal denoted by the Hebrew word. read more