חֹ֫מֶט
lizard
‘lizard’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2546 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun חמט centers on the idea of “lizard.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Leviticus dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Found nowhere else but Leviticus 11:30. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2546 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Snail 1×
- American Standard Version: Sand-lizard 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Skink 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Skink 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2546 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2546 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2546 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2546 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean animals
- perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning is unknown
Word origin
חֹ֫מֶט n.[m.] a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean creeping animals Lv 11:30
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning, to lie low
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֲמַט I
- (cmp. חמץ)
- 1. to be dark.—Denom. חוּמְטָא.
- 2. to be bitter, salty, v. חוּמְטוֹן.
- to be inflamed, become pestered. Sabb. 54ᵇ Ar., v. next w.
חֲמַט II
- (cmp. חבט) to knock down.—Part. pass. חָמֵיט, חֲמִיט prostrated, kneeling, (as verb) to kneel. Targ. Is. XLVI, 1. Targ. Ps. XCV, 6 נַחֲמוֹט (some ed. נַחֲמִיט). Targ. Y. Deut. XXVIII, 35 חֲמִיטְתּוּן … עבירתא (some ed. חַמִּי׳ incorr.; not עבידתא); cmp. Targ. Job IV, 4 דחָמְטָן. [Koh. R. to IV, 9, end חמטת, some ed., read: דמָטַת.]
- to prostrate, subdue. Targ. Ps. XVII, 13. Ib. XVIII, 40 Reg. (ed. תברתא).
- same. Ib. LXXVIII, 31.
- to knock against, be battered. Sabb. 54ᵇ דלא לִיחַמְטָן אליתייהו Ms. M. (ed. incorr.) that their tails may not knock against (the rocks &c., Rashi; Ar.: ‘may not ulcerate’; v. Syr. חמטא pustula, ulcus, P. Sm. 1303; v. preced.).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2546, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Proper names from this root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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