חֹמֶטchômeṭ

a lizard (as creeping)

Pronunciation: kho'met · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2546

Meanings

a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean creeping animals (Leviticus 11:30)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 11:30 the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).