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behemoth +? -ic

behemothic (comparative more behemothic, superlative most behemothic)

colossal, of enormous size and power.
- 1933 — H. P. Lovecraft, Out of the Aeons
  Oozing and surging up out of that yawning trap-door in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an unbelievable behemothic monstrosity that I could not doubt the power of its original to kill with its mere sight.

(of ernormous size and power): colossal, gargantuan, gigantic, mammoth, titanic
See also Thesaurus:gigantic

From Middle English behemoth, bemoth, from Late Latin behemoth, from Hebrew ?????????? (behemót). The Hebrew word is either:

an intensive plural of ????????? (behemá, “beast”), from Proto-Semitic (compare Ge'ez ??? (b?hmä, “to be dumb, to be speechless”), Arabic ? ? ?? (b-h-m)), or
less likely, a borrowing of Egyptian (*p?-j?-mw, “hippopotamus”, literally “the ox of the water”), from p? (“definite article”) + j? (“ox, cattle”) + mw (“water”) in a direct genitive construction; for the pronunciation, cf. the later Coptic descendants ?- (p-) + ??? (ehe) + ???? (moou).

behemoth (plural behemoths)

(biblical) A great and mighty beast God shows Job in Job 40:15–24.
Coordinate term: leviathan
(by extension) Any great and mighty monster.
(figuratively) Something which has the qualities of great power and might, and monstrous proportions.
Synonyms: colossus, leviathan, mammoth, titan

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