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title: לְטָאָה — lizard · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לְטָאָה (3911), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lizard. BDB 1906: n.f. lizard. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לְטָאָה

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«לְטָאָה» 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:** 3911 · **BDB:** לְטָאָה

### Glosses

lizard (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lizard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3911/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. lizard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3911/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a kind of lizard (NH id.);—named as unclean Lv 11:30 (with צָב, אֲנָקָה, כֹּחַ, חֹמֶט, תִּנְשֶׁמֶת), 𝔊 χαλαβώτης, 𝔙 stellio.—Vid. Diad loc. Tristr Nat. Hist. Bib. 266 ff.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לְטָאָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3911/), 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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