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title: חֹמֶט — lizard · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹמֶט (2546), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lizard. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹמֶט

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«חֹמֶט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lizard** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2546 · **BDB:** חֹ֫מֶט

### Glosses

skink (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lizard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2546/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean creeping animals Lv 11:30 וְהָאֲנָקָה וְהַכֹּחַ וְהַלְּטָאָ֑ה וְהַחֹמֶט וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃ (Aramaic ܚܽܘܠܡܳܛܳܐ is chameleon).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֹמֶט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2546/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.30/)

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וְהָאֲנָקָ֥ה וְהַכֹּ֖חַ וְהַלְּטָאָ֑ה וְהַחֹ֖מֶט וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

*Word for word:* and the gecko and the.monitor lizard and the.wall lizard and the skink and the chameleon

*JPS 1917:* and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.

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