=====behemot=====
בהמות

Job 40:15-19 which refers to 'behemot' “the Behemoth”, a powerful monster who established a division of trade routes into the mountains. 

However, all indications are that 'behemot' is probably not actually a word in its own right. As a true [[hapax legomenon]], it occurs only once in the entire corpus. The spelling of this word is very similar to a couple of other possible root words:
  *It might be a spelling mistake of the word [[behemeh]], meaning "beast"
  *It might be an alternate spelling of [[mot]], meaning "death". Note that 'be/ba' and 'he/ha' are both very common [[affixes|prefixes]] whose usage here fits with the established patterns of their usage. 

The establishing of divisions is an important theme in the ancient Hebrew texts, which we discuss further under [[berasit]]. This instance involving either "death" or "a beast" is an interesting case in that the act of division may be interpreted as either an unwitting act of an unthinking beast or a deliberate act of an intelligent entity setting boundaries and facilitating critical economic considerations.

It should be noted that the suffix "ot" might indicate femininity. This is the case where [[ben]] (son) becomes [[benot]] (daughter). If we take the 'ot' to function as a suffix, we are left with a root word of [[hem]], meaning "they", so the intended subject here could be referring to a group of women or girls "they (female)", however, no usage of such a word construction exists within the text, the typical terms being either [[betol]] (young women), [[benot]] (daughters), or [[nesim]] (women).

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[[https://bara.foundation/cgi-bin/lex.php?lexid=930|930]]