Lizard
לְטָאָהStrong’s H3911letaah (le-ta-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Letaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wall lizard”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.”
Meaning
- A kind of lizardnamed as being unclean · perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning is unknown
How it's translated
- and the wall lizard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
לְטָאָה letaah · lizard
1) a kind of lizard 1a) named as being unclean 1b) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning is unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lizard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIZ'ARD, noun
[Latin lacertus, lacerta, there has been a change of c into z or s, which may be the fact.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.