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.

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From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.