The clues given about the creature’s description-that it “feeds on grass like an ox” that the “sinews of its thighs are close-knit” and that its tail “sways like a cedar”-has led some biblical scholars to conclude that the creature in question may have been a hippopotamus. In the Book of Job, behemoth (from Hebrew via Middle English and Late Latin) describes a mysterious beast that resides in the current of a raging river.
