STRONGS NUMBER H2546


Word Summary
chomet: (a kind of) lizard
Original Word: חֹמֶט
Transliteration: chomet
Phonetic Spelling: (kho'met)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (a kind of) lizard
Meaning: (a kind of) lizard
Strong's Concordance
snail

From an unused root probably meaning, to lie low; a lizard (as creeping) -- snail.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2546. chomet

חֹ֫מֶטnoun [masculine] a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean creeping animals Leviticus 11:30 ׃ וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת וְהַחֹמֶט וְהַלְּטָאָ֑ה וְהַכֹּחַ וְהָאֲנָקָה‎ (Aramaic is chameleon).