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behemoth (Hebrew)
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Job 40:15-24 King James Version

15 Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. 16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. 20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares.
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Note: Manatees have POS pachyosteoscletoric rib bones, no marrow, just solid bone "like bars of iron". Manatees eat seagrass and other aquatic vegetation (and lettuce at SeaWorld). Their "stones" (testes) are internal, like whales.

Note: Manatees (West Africa, Carribean) and dugongs (Indian Ocean) are Sirenians, called sea cows. Behemoth may be derived from an Egyptian word P-Ehe-Mau meaning water ox.(ref.?)

Note: Lake Lisan (brackish) encompassed the Dead Sea, Jordan River, Sea of Gallilee and (I think) Paleo-Lake Huleh (now the Hula wetlands).

Note: "nose pierceth through snares" Sirenians have (short) tusks, like elephants and boars. Nose might mean a snout like a dolphin's rostum or beak.

Note: Sirenians lived in the Mediterranean region for millions of years, and are Afrotherians closely related to elephants, hyraxes, elephant shrews.

I'd say there is a close match between manatee and behemoth.

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I would like to know if there once was a continuous fresh/brackish/sea canal between Lebanon and Mozambique along the African Rift Valley. Lake Turkana had freshwater stingrays, plausibly indicating a marine incursion into the Rift Valley of the Indian Ocean ~ 1.9ma - 1.3ma.

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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/06/2016 01:56PM by DDeden.