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No, the behemoth would have been a larger sauropod dinosaur. Mishipishu, or "water panther" in Ojibway language is described in Amerind oral traditions has having a sawblade back, red fur, and a "great spiked tail" which he used as a weapon. That's a stegosaur. Mishipishu glyphs were common when Europeans first got here and Lewis and Clarke described their Indian guides as being in mortal terror of them. They appeared around rivers and lakes and were meant as warnings, i.e. "One of these lives here, be careful". There are only a few of them left now. Amerind artists touch the things up every few decades or so and the horns on the Masinaw glyph were obviously added long after the last stegosaur died out; real stegosaurs didn't have horns.

But given the standard theory we were indoctrinated with in school in which dinosaurs died out tens of millions of years ago, the idea of drawing ANY creature with a sawblade back would never have occurred to anybody.

RE Behemoth

What kind of animal is it as described in the book of Job ?

JOB CHAPTER 40:

15 Behold now the behemoth that I have made with you; he eats grass like cattle.

16 Behold now his strength is in his loins and his power is
in the navel of his belly.

17 His tail hardens like a cedar; the sinews of his tendons are knit together.

18 His limbs are as strong as copper, his bones as a load of iron.

19 His is the first [largest] of God’s ways; [only] his Maker can draw His sword [against him].

20 For the mountains bear food for him, and all the beasts of the field play there.

21 Does he lie under the shadows, in the cover of the reeds and the swamp?

22 Do the shadows cover him as his shadow? Do the willows of the brook surround him?

23 Behold, he plunders the river, and [he] does not harden; he trusts that he will draw the Jordan into his mouth.

24 With His eyes He will take him; with snares He will puncture his nostrils.