Snail
שַׁבְּלוּלStrong’s H7642shavlul (shav-lul)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shavlul is the Hebrew word usually translated “snail”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.”
Meaning
- Snail
How it's translated
- a snail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁבְּלוּל shavlul · snail
snail
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “snail” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SNAIL, noun
- A slimy slow creeping animal, of the genus Helix, and order of Mollusca.
- A drone; a slow moving person.
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.