Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/African Behemoth

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The result was Delete. Deizio talk 21:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] African Behemoth

Prodded with "Sources cannot be found for this subject". Prod removed with the comment "Behemoth". No discussion or article change. Google lists 23 unique results, none for this creature. TransUtopian 21:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Mokele mbembe. Yomangani^talk 22:17, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — as prod'der. ... discospinster _talk 01:55, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - do not Merge, as there is nothing of substance in the article.
  

The term behemoth came to the English language from the Bible, where it is a transliteration of the Hebrew term bəhēmôth (written bē-hě-mõth in the KJV). Job 40:15 hardly describes this creature - in fact, the Hebrew word is plural (from bəhēmāh [sg.]), meaning "large, powerful animal" (typically a mammal). Hebrew lexicons and biblical commentaries alike suggest that the bəhēmôth of Job 40:15 is actually a hippopotamus, and though this will forever remain an open question; no credible scholars think that it is a sauropod!

• Weak Redirect, only if it can be established that "African Behemoth" is indeed an alternative name for Mokele mbembe. (I did a quick Google search and turned up nothing.)
  

Em-jay-es 06:44, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

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