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title: שְׂמָמִית — lizard · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׂמָמִית (8079), 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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# שְׂמָמִית

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«שְׂמָמִית» 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:** 8079 · **BDB:** שְׂמָמִית

### Glosses

a.lizard (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lizard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8079/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. lizard [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8079/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a kind of lizard (so 𝔊 𝔙 𝔗 Lv 11:30 cf. Str Pr (also on שׂ \> שׁ));—abs. שׂ׳ Pr 30:28 (cf. Shipley-CookEncy.Bib. Lizard).

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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 (2 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 «שְׂמָמִית» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8079/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 30:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.28/)

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שְׂ֭מָמִית בְּיָדַ֣יִם תְּתַפֵּ֑שׂ וְ֝הִ֗יא בְּהֵ֣יכְלֵי מֶֽלֶךְ׃פ

*Word for word:* a.lizard in two.hands you.will.grasp and it \[is\].in.\[the\] palaces of.a.king

*JPS 1917:* The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

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