Lizard
שְׂמָמִיתStrong’s H8079semamit (se-ma-mit)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Semamit is the Hebrew word usually translated “lizard”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.”
Meaning
- A kind of lizard
How it's translated
- a lizard 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂמָמִית semamit · lizard
a kind of lizard
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.