Crossword clues for goliath
goliath
- Megacorporation
- He went down in the Valley of Elah
- (Old Testament) a giant Philistine warrior who David slayed with a slingshot
- Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
- See 90-Across
- Giant, raving, hit a log
- Giant boar sandwiches detective knocked back
- Huge fellow I look up in biblical city
- Philistine giant slain by David
- Biblical giant
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Late Latin Goliath, from Hebrew Golyath, name of the Philistine giant slain by David [I Sam. xvii].
Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Goliath English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Goliath (; ; Arabic: جالوت, Ǧālūt (Qur'anic term), جليات Ǧulyāt (Christian term)) of Gath (one of five city states of the Philistines) was a giant Philistine warrior defeated by the young David, the future king of Israel. The story is told in the Bible's Books of Samuel (1 Samuel 17).
The original purpose of the story was to show David's identity as the true king of Israel. Post-Classical Jewish traditions stressed Goliath's status as the representative of paganism, in contrast to David, the champion of the God of Israel. Christian tradition gave him a distinctively Christian perspective, seeing in David's battle with Goliath the victory of God's king over the enemies of God's helpless people as a prefiguring of Jesus' victory over sin on the cross and the Church's victory over Satan.
The phrase "David and Goliath" has taken on a more secular meaning, denoting an underdog situation, a contest where a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary.
Goliath, in comics, may refer to:
- Marvel Comics characters:
- Hank Pym, was the first to adopt the name Goliath and has also gone by Giant-Man, Ant-Man, and Yellowjacket.
- Clint Barton, is better known as the superhero Hawkeye; he used Henry Pym's size-changing gas to adopt the Goliath identity.
- Bill Foster, Pym's lab assistant who used the Goliath identity before his death. He also went by the names Black Goliath and Giant Man.
- Erik Josten was originally known as the supervillain Power Man. He adopted the superheroic identity of Atlas upon joining the Thunderbolts.
- Tom Foster, Bill Foster's nephew, a student at MIT, worked to crack the Pym Particle code and become the new Goliath after his uncle's death.
- Goliath (Amalgam Comics), a fictional Amalgam Comics superhero
- Goliath, a character who appeared in both the Marvel and Slave Labor Graphics series of Gargoyles.
Goliath was a giant famous for his battle with David as described in the Hebrew Bible.
Goliath may also refer to:
Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co. was a German car manufacturer started by Carl F. W. Borgward and Wilhelm Tecklenburg in 1928, and was part of the Borgward group. Goliath was based in Bremen and specialized in three-wheeler cars and trucks and medium-sized cars. Their vehicles were sold under the Goliath brand.
Goliath is a fictional character and the primary protagonist of the Disney animated television series Gargoyles. He is voiced by Keith David.
Goliath is a steel Hyper Coaster located at the Six Flags Over Georgia amusement park in Cobb County, Georgia, United States. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard it reaches a maximum height of , a top speed of , and has approximately of track. Great Gasp and Looping Starship were both removed by the end of the 2005 season to make room for the roller coaster. Goliath was announced to the public on September 1, 2005 and opened on April 1, 2006. In 2006, Amusement Todays annual Golden Ticket Awards voted it the fourth-best new steel roller coaster of that year and the 9th-best steel roller coaster. It was voted the 7th-best steel roller coaster in 2013.
Goliath was the dog companion of Davey in the Lutheran stop motion cartoon, Davey and Goliath, 1960–1975.
Goliath served as the boy, Davey Hansen's, conscience. While Goliath could not speak, Davey and the audience could hear his thoughts. This was integral in Davey and Goliath's learning a love for God through everyday events.
Goliath is a steel inverted roller coaster manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard currently operating at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, Texas since April 18, 2008. In the roller coaster's lifetime, it has operated at two other amusement parks: Thrill Valley from 1995 to May 6, 2002, and Six Flags New Orleans from April 12, 2003 to August 21, 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Goliath's highest point is , the trains can reach a top speed of , and the length of the track is approximately .
Thomas Foster is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is the fifth to hold the mantle of Goliath.
Goliath is a science fiction novel by Steve Alten. It was released on September 9, 2002.
Goliath is a steel roller coaster located at the Walibi Holland theme park in Biddinghuizen, Dronten in the Netherlands. It is described as "the fastest, highest and longest coaster in the Benelux". It was mainland Europe's second Intamin "Mini Hyper Rollercoaster", so named as the ride is styled on the larger (generally over ) ride, but with a lower maximum height of . The train travels at speeds of up to along of track.
Goliath is a steel roller coaster made by Giovanola of Switzerland. The hypercoaster is located in the Colossus County Fair area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California and is promoted with a sub-tropical theme that is characterized by ruins of the ancient Mayan civilization. The ride is nearly identical to Titan at Six Flags Over Texas. Its differences from its Six Flags twin is that Goliath lacks the 540-degree upward helix on Titan prior to the mid-course brake run (Goliath simply banks left to the brake run instead) and Goliath is also slightly shorter than Titan.
During a brief period from its opening on February 11 to May 13, 2000, Goliath's opening drop was recognized as the longest and fastest (90.2 mph) on a closed-circuit roller coaster in the world. Millennium Force at Cedar Point eclipsed these records when it opened on May 13, 2000 with a drop of and speeds of .
Goliath is a steel coaster roller coaster at the La Ronde located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, it reaches a maximum height of , a speed of , and a track length of . Construction commenced in September 2005, and the roller coaster opened to the public on May 13, 2006. Goliath was the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada until it was surpassed by Behemoth (another Bolliger & Mabillard roller coaster), at Canada's Wonderland's in 2008. Six Flags announced that Goliath would be hooked up with Virtual Reality for a New Revolution experience for the 2016 season, which was previously made as a world premiere in 2013 by a Montreal VR company.
Goliath is the name of a crane that is currently located at the 2 Mai Mangalia S. A. shipyard in Mangalia, Romania. Formerly, it was part of the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts.
Goliaths are a race related to the giants, in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Goliath (2011) Steampunk novel by Scott Westerfeld, most of 55 chapters with (full-page) grey-shaded sketches by Keith Thompson, concludes Leviathan series after Behemoth. Prince Aleksander, secret heir to Austro-Hungarian throne, sees through the male disguise of Dylan of Scottish midshipman Deryn Sharp on the organic airship Leviathan. They rescue Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla from the site of a 1908 Siberian Tunguska event meteorite blast, but Alek destroys the inventor and his Goliath weapon under German attack in New York, triggering the entry of U.S. into 1914 World War I.
Goliath is the debut album by the American heavy metal band Butcher Babies, released on July 9, 2013 in the U.S., and July 22 in Europe. The album was produced by Josh Wilbur.
Goliath is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Manufactured by Rocky Mountain Construction and designed by Alan Schilke, the ride set three world records for wooden roller coasters: the longest drop at , the steepest drop at 85°, and the fastest speed at . The 100-second ride also features two inversions.
The ride was constructed over a nine-month period from September 2013 on the site of the former Iron Wolf roller coaster. Following its opening to the public on June 19, 2014, the ride has received favorable reviews.
Goliath is a crane in Rosyth Dockyard, Scotland, with a lift capacity of , the largest in Britain.
Goliath is the sixth studio album by alternative rock singer Steve Taylor, and his first with the group Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil, consisting of Taylor, Peter Furler, Jimmy Abegg and John Mark Painter. It was released by Splint Entertainment on November 18, 2014 and marks his first studio release since 1993's Squint.
Goliath is a short graphic novel by Tom Gauld published by Drawn and Quarterly in 2012.
Goliath (formerly known as Trial) is an upcoming American legal drama web-television series. The show has been commissioned with a straight-to-series order of 10 episodes and is set to premiere on October 14, 2016 on Amazon Video.
Usage examples of "goliath".
Brought back to life by Goliath Bioengineering in the late thirties and early forties, they were as much a part of modern life as dodos or mammoths.
I was glad when we reached the top of the hill, cleared the forest and drove down past a small dam and a lake before a rise in the road brought us within sight of the old Goliath bioengineering labs.
They and smaller posts scattered up and down Brasilia from the northern icecap to the southern icecap, and from Goliath in the west to Glacier Mountain toward the east, were all nanofacted in the same fashion as Tierra Natal.
Gideon, the scrip of David, from which the smoothest stones are taken for the slaying of Goliath.
Burnside has arms and shoulders like a dwarfed goliath, and legs so thin his small feet look like powderpuffs attached to toothpicks.
Consort Brattle lay in the dust, her left arm gone at the elbow, and stared up at the hulking goliath in body armor who loomed over her, his rifle in her face.
My father whispered in my ear that his neighbour was Captain Foley, of the Goliath, who led the van at the Nile, and that the tall, thin, foxy-haired man opposite was Lord Cochrane, the most dashing frigate captain in the Service.
Little Claus and Great Claus, Tiny Tim and Carolus Magnus, David and Goliath, Jack the Giant Killer and, of course, the giant.
I noticed it first when we were lying in the wholly sunless estuary of the River Plate, having sent the tender over that vast and as far as I could see birdless waste to Buenos Aires, carrying among other burdens a message to you in which I pointed out the extraordinary contrast between your African water, teeming with both familiar and wildly exotic duck, geese, anhingas, waders from the most minute of stints to Ardea goliath, and this prodigious desert, inhabited perhaps to the extreme limit of my glass by one moulting black-crested grebe.
The Goliaths activated their twin autocannons, targeting two of the four cyborg warriors.
She unveiled her new image as we were sitting in front of our Mitsubishi home entertainment totem, eating our last few boxes of Kellogg's Snak-Paks with plastic spoons, deconstructing old Samson and Goliath cartoons, and trying to figure out how/if to wake up my Dad, who was still passed out on Michael's bed.
With a little chiseling the head of Goliath would disappear, and in its place would be a round sphere.
An utter silence had fallen on the watchers as they strained to catch every nuance of this stylized dance of death, and then a lust-choked roar burst from them as Goliath sprang.
Wolf took a long look at the solitary blip that for all the world looked like an electronic David waiting for the flying army of Goliaths.
The trees were perennial, from some subtropical zone -- a sweet, sickly stench rose from them, mingling with the burnt-meat smell of a Goliath beetle that Piet had cornered and slaughtered noisily.