Ferret in Easton's Bible Dictionary
Lev. 11:30 (R.V., "gecko"), one of the unclean creeping
things.
It was perhaps the Lacerta gecko which was intended by
the
Hebrew word (anakah, a cry, "mourning," the creature
which
groans) here used, i.e., the "fan-footed" lizard, the
gecko
which makes a mournful wail. The LXX. translate it by
a word
meaning "shrew-mouse," of which there are three
species in
Israel. The Rabbinical writers regard it as the
hedgehog. The
translation of the Revised Version is to be preferred.
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