What is "leviathan"

Leviathan \Le*vi"a*than\ (l[-e]*v[imac]"[.a]*than), n. [Heb. livy[=a]th[=a]n.]

1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and mentioned in other passages of Scripture.

   Note: It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent.

2. The whale, or a great whale.
   --Milton.

late 14c., "sea monster, sea serpent," also regarded as a form of Satan, from Late Latin leviathan, from Hebrew livyathan "dragon, serpent, huge sea animal," of unknown origin, perhaps related to liwyah "wreath," from root l-w-h- "to wind, turn, twist." Of powerful persons or things from c.1600. Hobbes's use is from 1651.

a. Very large; gargantuan. n. 1 (context Bible English) A vast sea monster of tremendous strength, described as the most powerful and dangerous creature in the ocean. 2 Something large; behemoth.

1. n. the largest or most massive thing of its kind; "it was a leviathan among redwoods"; "they were assigned the leviathan of textbooks"

2. monstrous sea creature symbolizing evil in the Old Testament

Leviathan (; ) is a sea monster referenced in the Tanakh, or the Old Testament.

This word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature. In literature (e.g., Herman Melville's Moby-Dick) it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew, it simply means "whale". It is described extensively in and mentioned in , , , and .

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Leviathan ranks as a classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. Written during the English Civil War (1642–1651), Leviathan argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature (" the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong, undivided government.

Leviathan, in comics, may refer to:

• Leviathan, an alias used by Legion of Super-Heroes member Gim Allon
• Leviathan (Marvel Comics), a fictional Soviet-based terrorist organization similar to Hydra.
• Leviathan (DC Comics), a criminal organization run by Batman villain Talia al Ghul in Batman Inc. and Batman Incorporated
• Leviathan (2000 AD), a story from 2000 AD
• Leviathan (comic strip), a British comic strip from the Independent on Sunday
• Leviathan, the original alias of Marvel Comics character Edward Cobert, better known as Gargantua
• Leviathan, a Marvel Comics character who appeared in Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Leviathan is a comic strip by Peter Blegvad, an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. It appeared in the review section of the British newspaper The Independent on Sunday during the 1990s.

Leviathan is a Biblical sea monster.

Leviathan may also refer to:

Leviathan is a 1989 science fiction horror film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by David Peoples and Jeb Stuart. It stars Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Ernie Hudson, and Daniel Stern. It follows the crew of an underwater geological facility as they are stalked and killed by a hideous creature.

Leviathan is a horror comic series created by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli and, which appeared in the British magazine '' 2000 AD ''starting in 2003.

The story is set on a massive ocean liner (the Leviathan of the title) which has been transported to some sort of parallel world with no land or landmarks. The story appeared in ten parts followed by three stand alone "Tales of the Leviathan" which expanded on the history of the ship as well as featuring new characters.

Ian Edginton has described it as " Agatha Christie meets Silent Hill."

Leviathan is American writer Paul Auster’s seventh novel, published by Viking Press in 1992. The novel follows the life and crimes of a man who decides to take action over words to deliver his message to the world, as told by his estranged best friend.

Leviathan is the second album by American heavy metal band Mastodon, released in 2004 by Relapse Records. The album is the group's first concept album and is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick, and the songs "Iron Tusk", "Blood and Thunder", "I Am Ahab" and "Seabeast" were released as singles. Three magazines awarded it Album of the Year in 2004: Revolver, Kerrang! and Terrorizer. In 2009 and 2015 MetalSucks named Leviathan the best metal album of the 21st century.

Leviathan was also released with an audio DVD of DVD-Video format in a limited edition set with a black and gold slipcase. The album brought Mastodon great critical acclaim and, thanks to the ensuing tour, a considerably larger fan base. Leviathan had sold 103,000 copies by September, 2006. Guitarist Bill Kelliher considers this album to represent the water element, in keeping with elemental tetralogy of concept albums.

LEVIATHAN is a stream cipher submitted to NESSIE by Scott Fluhrer and David McGrew. It is a seekable stream cipher, which means that the user may efficiently skip forward to any part of the keystream, much like CTR mode or Salsa20, but unlike those ciphers generating contiguous blocks of the keystream is made especially efficient by LEVIATHAN's unique tree structure based stream generation. LEVIATHAN achieves around 11 cycles per byte on a Pentium II processor.

LEVIATHAN is considered broken due to distinguishing attacks which require 2 bytes of output and comparable effort.

Leviathan is an American ambient black metal solo project that started in 1998 by Jef Whitehead, using the pseudonym Wrest. In Leviathan, Wrest records and plays all instruments including vocals entirely on his own. Despite having early problems with the release of Massive Conspiracy Against All Life, it was released March 24, 2008 in Europe and March 25, 2008 in North America. Additionally, Wrest has collaborated with the band Sunn O))), and is an active member of the U.S. black metal supergroup Twilight. He has stated in interviews that he has been playing drums longer than any other instrument and that the drums are his instrument of choice. Wrest also plays and records everything in his other project Lurker of Chalice. Regarding his writing, Wrest says that most of his lyrics are about suicide and that "[l]yrics are important and also very hard for me... at times, the way things come out in words sounds like nonsense. I don't consider myself a poet by any means."

In late 2008, Wrest was arrested for drug possession in Thailand; the charges were later dropped. Whitehead was again arrested on January 9, 2011 on charges of sexual assault and domestic violence. Wrest has confirmed in an interview that the events surrounding his arrest and the accuser have inspired the music and theme of True Traitor, True Whore. Faced with six charges stemming from the incident, Wrest maintained his innocence and took the case to trial. In May 2012, Wrest was found not guilty of all charges except for one count of aggravated domestic battery.

Leviathan's latest album, Scar Sighted was released on 3 March, 2015 on Profound Lore Records.

Leviathan was a hard rock band that formed in New York City, N.Y. in 2001. During their career, they've played with Glenn Danzig, The Exploited, Nuclear Assault, Body Count, Jello Biafra, Clutch, Michale Graves, The Misfits, Hirax, Six Feet Under, and Testament, Agent Orange to name a few. Before their hiatus, Caustic Truths Magazine named the band alongside Sum 41 and The Hellacopters as one of the fifty "hardest touring bands in the USA" in 2004, and they're listed in the "New Wave Of North American Heavy Metal", published in 2005. By mixing traditional metal distortion and heavy beats with horror punk, funk, and hard rock, the band is very versatile within what are usually very exclusionary micro-genre factions of rock & roll, able to open for many varying headliners.

Leviathan is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Leviathan is a fictional criminal organization in DC Comics, later revealed to be a schism of the League of Assassins under Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia's leadership.

Leviathan is a 2012 documentary film directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. It is an experimental work about the North American fishing industry. The film has been acquired for U.S. distribution by The Cinema Guild.

The filmmakers used GoPro cameras and worked 20-hour shifts during the shooting of the film.

Leviathan is the name of an evil Soviet-based organization in Marvel Comics.

Leviathan is a biopunk/ steampunk novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. It was released on October 6, 2009.

First of a young adult fiction trilogy set in alternative version of World War I, it has Central Powers (Clankers) using mechanized war machines opposed by Entente Powers (Darwinists) who fabricate living creatures genetically. The heroes are teens Aleksander, son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and Deryn, Scottish girl with dreams of joining the British Air Service with her brother. The sequels are Behemoth and Goliath. The first two chapters of this book were released with Bogus to Bubbly: Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies.

The book was named the Best Young Adult Novel by the Aurealis Award in 2009, Locus in 2010, and Mir Fantastiki in 2011.

Leviathan is an Australian clothing brand established in 1909 in Melbourne, Victoria, by Leviathan Clothing Industry that started its activities as garments manufacturer for transoceanic crews. Its headquarters, the Leviathan Building, was designed and realized in 1918 by Harry Tompkins, who created an elaborate mix of arts with art nouveau, baroque and art deco motifs. Leviathan Building is considered a landmark of Australian architecture.

Moved to Perth, Western Australia, in 1969 by UWM Corporation, the private company that deeply renewed the trademark, Leviathan actually focus on marine outdoor garments for sailing, surfing and watersports. Distribution of Leviathan products has been developed in Australia, Europe, Japan and North America.

Since 1974, Leviathan, through Werner Foundation based in Perth, is sponsor of oceanographic research institutions and marine exploration activities.

Leviathan is a steel roller coaster in the Medieval Faire section of the park at Canada's Wonderland in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is the first roller coaster made by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard to exceed a height of , putting it in a class of roller coasters commonly referred to as giga. At long, tall, and with a top speed of , Leviathan is the tallest and fastest roller coaster in Canada. , Leviathan is ranked as the eighth-tallest, and the eighth-fastest roller coaster in the world, and the third-tallest traditional lift-style coaster in the world. It was the 16th roller coaster to be built at Canada's Wonderland, and the ride's track was completed in February 2012, with the first test run being completed on 15 March 2012. The coaster opened to season pass holders on 27 April 2012, and to the general public on 6 May 2012.

Leviathan (, Leviafan) is a 2014 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, co-written by Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin, and starring Aleksei Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, and Vladimir Vdovichenkov. According to Zvyagintsev, the story of Marvin Heemeyer in the United States inspired him and it was adapted into a Russian setting, but critics compare the story to the more similar biblical story of Naboth's Vineyard, where a King vies for his subjects' land and is motivated by his Queen to obtain it in a sly manner. The character development of the protagonist parallels another biblical figure, Job. The producer Alexander Rodnyansky has said: "It deals with some of the most important social issues of contemporary Russia while never becoming an artist's sermon or a public statement; it is a story of love and tragedy experienced by ordinary people". Critics noted the film as being formidable, dealing with quirks of fate, power and money.

The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Zvyagintsev and Negin won the award for Best Screenplay. The film was adjudged as the best film of the year at the 2014 London Film Festival and the 45th International Film Festival of India. It won the Best Foreign Language Film award at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards.