בְּהֵמוֹת

בְּהֵמוֹתm. (b. h.; Coptic p-ehe-mau, water-ox, Ges.) in Rabbin. lit. Bhemoth, a legendary animal reserved for the righteous in the hereafter; cmp. לִוְיָתָן. Lev. R. s. 22 in place of the forbidden animals from which you here abstain, ב׳ בחררי אלף (I shall give you in the hereafter) ‘the bhemoth on the thousand mountains (Ps. 50:10). Ib. s. 13 ב׳ ולויתןוכ׳ bhemoth a. leviathan are the game of the righteous Ib. ב׳ נותץוכ׳ bhemoth shall attack the leviathan with his horns