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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia · 1915

Sand-lizard

sand'-liz-ard. (chomeT; Septuagint saura, "lizard"; the King James Version snail):

ChomeT is 7th in the list of unclean "creeping things" in Leviticus 11:29,30, and occurs nowhere else. It is probably a skink or some species of Lacerta.

See LIZARD

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr, general editor (Chicago: Howard-Severance, 1915). Public domain. Text as published by biblestudytools.com. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: links to 1, 2, and 3 John that our source pointed at the Gospel of John corrected; our source’s section marks set as headings.