Talk:Sea Feilong/@comment-28904227-20170416073520/@comment-25936766-20170625003237

Leviathan in modern hebrew means "Whale". Your argument is invalid.

More seriously though, the Leviathan has a variety of traits that, admittedly, don't make it exactly like a specific animal.

If we go by everything said by the different sources that described it, it is miles long, it has a breath hot enough to make the sea boil, eats a whale every day, possesses "great illuminating power", and has "mighty fins", "plate armor" or scales, and legs.

And in The Time To Come it will be served to the righteous alongside Behemoth, with it's skin used to cover the tent where the banquet will take place.

The problem is that language marches on. We have words for many things now, but milleniums ago we did not. What they call "a big fish" or "a serpent" was likely not a fish or a serpent, but they didn't have any other words.

Generally, and historically, Leviathan is interpreted as a whale, and the name has been used to refer to Great Whales and similar creatures, and when not then just for sea monsters in general. That said, the most likely alternative would be a crocodile if we go by the traits alone, though it doesn't fit the imagery with exactitude.