(בְּהֵמוֹת), Job xli. 15; in Coptic, according to Jablonski, Pehemont) is regarded as the plural of behemah, בְּהֵמוֹת, but commentators are by no means agreed as to its true meaning. A number of learned men, with Bochart and Calmet at their head, understand the word in the singular number as a specific name denoting the hippopotamus, seeking to prove, by somewhat forced interpretations of the beautiful poetical allusions in Job xli. 15-24, the exactness of the description when compared with the species, which, however, in some respects is more applicable to the Behmen elephant, while in others it is equally so to both animals. Hence the term behemoth, taken intensely (for in some places it is admitted to designate cattle in general), may be assumed to be a poetical personification of the great Pachydermata, or even Herbivora, wherein the idea of hippopotamus is predominant. This view accounts for the ascription to it of characters not truly applicable to one species.