בְּהֵמוֹת, Coptic p-ehe-mau, water-ox, Ges.) in Rabbin. lit. B’hemoth, 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׳ בהררי אלף (I shall give you in the hereafter) ‘the b’hemoth on the thousand mountains’ (Ps. L, 10). Ib. s. 13 ב׳ ולויתן וכ׳ b’hemoth a. leviathan are the game of the righteous &c. Ib. ב׳ נותץ וכ׳ b’hemoth shall attack the leviathan with his horns &c.