King James Version
Leviticus 11:30 in the King James Version says “And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.” — study this verse from Leviticus chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.”
Leviticus 11:30 · KJV
And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“and the chameleon”
H3581vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)
“and the mole”
H8580properly, a hard breather, i.e., the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility),
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