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

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«כֹּחַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **chameleon** — 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:** lemma:כֹּחַ · **BDB:** כֹּחַ

### Glosses

lizard (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

chameleon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b9_5bc_5d7_5b7/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a small reptile, prob. a kind of lizard, in list of unclean creeping things Lv 11:30; 𝔊 𝔙 AV chameleon; on various opinions v. Di.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֹּחַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/lemma_3a_5db_5b9_5bc_5d7_5b7/), 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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