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שְׂמָמִית

se.ma.mit

lizard

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Strong’s H8079Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a lizard1

In the text

Proverbs 30:28שְׂמָמִית
and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שְׂמָמִית n.f. a kind of lizard;—abs. Pr 30:28

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.