圣经中的梦境解析70 篇文章

圣经中有河马吗?虽然没有直接提到名字,但许多人认为《约伯记》中的比蒙就是河马



  • 圣经中从未用希伯来语直接命名河马;最接近的描述是约伯记 40:15–24 中的比蒙,它吃草,躺在芦苇和莲花丛中,不惧怕汹涌的河流。
  • 许多现代译本在注释中将比蒙等同于河马,《当代英语译本》(Contemporary English Version)和《当代圣经》(The Living Bible)甚至直接在正文中印上了“河马”一词。
  • 以色列沿海平原出土的河马骨骼表明,这种动物一直生活在那里,直到铁器时代(约公元前 1200–586 年)。
  • 托马斯·阿奎那将比蒙解读为大象,而格列高利一世和阿奎那都将其视为魔鬼的象征。
  • 其他学者则将其视为神话中的混沌怪兽,犹太著作如《以斯拉二书》6:49–52 将比蒙与利维坦并列。
  • 一些年轻地球创造论者认为比蒙是蜥脚类恐龙,并指出约伯记 40:17 中提到它“摇动尾巴如香柏树”。

No, not by name. The nearest the Bible comes is Behemoth, the grass-eating giant of Job 40:15–24, which many modern translators and commentators identify with the hippopotamus, and a few English versions print “hippopotamus” there. Others read Behemoth as an elephant or a mythical monster, and some young-earth creationists read it as a dinosaur. Who is Behemoth in Job 40? Behemoth appears once, near the end of the Book of Job. After Job has accused God of treating him unjustly,…

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