Leviticus 11:30
in Leviticus 11the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.
KJV
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
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This verse in Leviticus 11
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThe ferret - אנקה anakah, from אנק anak, to groan, to cry out: a species of lizard, which derives its name from its piercing, doleful cry. See Bochart, vol. ii., col. 10
This site's exposition
The following creatures that move along the ground
on Leviticus 11:29-35
Eight small creatures are named, and the rule moves from the animal to whatever it falls on when dead. An article of wood, clothing, leather or sackcloth is rinsed with water and is clean at evening, while a clay pot is broken.
This site's exposition
the chameleon
The five names here are all taken now as lizards, where older versions read ferret, snail and mole. Adam Clarke read anakah, the first, as a groaning lizard. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown likewise read the snail and the mole as kinds of lizard.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the ferret,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the ferret--the Hebrew word is thought by some to signify the newt or chameleon, by others the frog. the chameleon--called by the Arabs the warral, a green lizard. the snail--a lizard which lives in the sand, and is called by the Arabs chulca, of an azure color. the mole--Another species of lizard is meant, probably the chameleon.
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The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
Where this verse is studied
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About Leviticus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.