Ferret
letaah. Leviticus 11:30. One of the monitors, the Lacerta
Nilotica, Speaker's Commentary, (See CHAMELEON.) Smith's Bible
Dictionary makes it the fan-foot lizard, gecko....
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fer'-et ('anaqah, the Revised Version (British and American)
GECKO): Occurs only in Lev 11:30 the King James Version, in
the list of animals which are unclean "among the creeping
things that creep upon the earth." the Revised Version
(British and American) has "gecko" with the marginal note,
"Words of uncertain meaning, but probably denoting f...
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-General scriptures concerning
Le 11:30...
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one of the unclean creeping things mentioned in Le 11:30 The
animal referred to was probably a reptile of the lizard tribe
(the gecko). The rabbinical writers seen to have identified
this animal with the hedgehog....
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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...
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White European polecat mentioned by KJV in Leviticus 11:30.
Other translations read, "gecko." See Animals....
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And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the
snail, and the mole....
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gek'-o (the Revised Version (British and American) for
'anaqah, only in Lev 11:30; Septuagint mugale, "shrew mouse"
or "field mouse"; the King James Version ferret): Probably a
shrew or a field mouse....
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(that which clings to the ground) (Heb. letaah. Le 11:30
Lizards of various kinds abound in Egypt, Israel and Arabia.
The lizard denoted by the Hebrew word is probably the fan-foot
lizard (Ptyodactylus gecko) which is common in Egypt and in
parts of Arabia, and perhaps is found also in Israel. It is
reddish brown spotted with white. The gecko ...
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Only in Lev. 11:30, as rendering of Hebrew _letaah_, so called
from its "hiding." Supposed to be the Lacerta gecko or
fan-foot
lizard, from the toes of which poison exudes. (See
CHAMELEON)...
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