חֹ֫מֶט
cho.met
- lizard
STEPBible TBESH
Glosses: lizard
1) a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean animals
1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning is unknown
BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
Glosses: lizard
Root √חמט: חמט חֲמֵישׁ ,חֲמַט ḫamâṭu ḫamṭu hasten swift sink fall to the ground, kneel (√ of foll.; cf. As. Prä ZMG 1874, 88ff. Zim BP 84n.; Aram,isor).
חֹ֫מֶט n.[m.] Lv 11:30 a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean creeping animals