"Behemoth"

Question

Last week I posted a video exercise in which I used a very old, unused word

behemoth Please look at this commercial and pay attention to the fifth or sixth sentence. Maybe I wasn't so far off after all.

I've posted it in Vocabulary because it is just that. Feel free to move it.

Answer 1

Ademas, this biblical creature inspired William Blake

and the world-famous Polish metal music band!!

Wow, no kidding???? - Yeser007, May 29, 2011

Yeah! Although I am not a great fan of death metal, but if you are you can listen to, for example, "Lucifer" ;) - bomberapolaca, May 30, 2011

Funny. Who came first, this group or K I S S? - babs_irish, May 30, 2011

Answer 2

It's often used, unfortunately, to describe a female who is a bit . . . large.

In Poland we have sort of better phrase to call them, which in English would be "a wardrobe" ;) - bomberapolaca, May 29, 2011

wow, I would never go there with that word - Yeser007, May 29, 2011

That's a funny one, bombera. We also say, in the US, that someone is "as big as a house." - babs_irish, May 30, 2011

Answer 3

Wiki Link is quite good. I've always seen it used to describe something huge. I didn't know about its roots link text

Answer 4

Also have a look at this one Behemoth

certainly more bee hee than moth - lagartijaverde, May 29, 2011

Answer 5

It is still used, but it usually means something huge with negative connotations--either being much bigger than it should be, or something that shouldn't be big.

Yes, I associate it with say a vehicle which is awkward to drive or an oil tanker that takes hours to change its path at sea - lagartijaverde, May 29, 2011

Answer 6

Clearly says bi/ehimez, here they do too, can't find a British site.

I though it interesting to hear it in a commercial after many of us discussed last night how the word is never used these days. - Yeser007, May 29, 2011

Answer 7

1. List item

From Dictionary.com (which also gives a spoken pronunciation).

be·he·moth? ?

[bih-hee-muhth, bee-uh-] Show IPA –noun

1. an animal, perhaps the hippopotamus, mentioned in Job 40:15–24.

2. any creature or thing of monstrous size or power: The army's new tank is a behemoth. The cartel is a behemoth small business owners fear.

gives ;) - Tosh, May 29, 2011

Thanks, T. :) - Sabor, May 29, 2011

Answer 8

The word is very familiar to me, but I guess I have always been pronouncing it wrong.

[bah-hee-muhth] instead of [bih-hee-muhth]

:) thanks Tosh, I used it in my video exercise to try and throw Heidita and Cogumela off and it worked but then so many others said they had never heard it before. - Yeser007, May 29, 2011

Answer 9

Haha, you didn't close your text colour Yeser! hehehe, everything is blue now...

hehehe, thanks Hanna, I do that a lot. - Yeser007, May 29, 2011

De nada Yeser! ;-) - Destroyed99, May 29, 2011