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# שְׂמָמִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8079

**lizard** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lizard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8079/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂמָמִית: n.f. lizard [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8079/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a kind of lizard (so 𝔊 𝔙 𝔗 Lv 11:30 cf. Str Pr (also on שׂ \> שׁ));—abs. שׂ׳ Pr 30:28 (cf. Shipley-CookEncy.Bib. Lizard).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lizard (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.28/#tree)

שְׂ֭מָמִית בְּיָדַ֣יִם תְּתַפֵּ֑שׂ וְ֝הִ֗יא בְּהֵ֣יכְלֵי מֶֽלֶךְ׃פ

*Word for word:* a.lizard in two.hands you.will.grasp and it \[is\].in.\[the\] palaces of.a.king

*JPS 1917:* The spider thou canst take with the hands, yet is she in kings' palaces.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8079.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8079/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).