שממית
Hebrew
[edit]| Root |
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| שׂ־מ־ם (s-m-m) |
Noun
[edit]שְׂמָמִית • (smamít) f (plural indefinite שממיות, singular construct שממיות־)
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) gecko (any lizard of the family Gekkonidae)
- (Biblical Hebrew, hapax) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
Usage notes
[edit]For discussion of the biblical meaning, see Delitzsch and Forti.
Derived terms
[edit]- שְׂמָמִיתִיִּים (smamitiyím, “Gekkonidae”)
References
[edit]- ^ Septuagint, 300–200 BC, Proverbs 30:28
- ^ Rashi (c. 1100) Rashi on Sanhedrin (in Hebrew), 103b:10
- ^ The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Proverbs 30:28.
- ^ Moses Kimchi [historically attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra] (c. 1160) Ibn Ezra on Proverbs (in Hebrew), 30:28
Further reading
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שממיתיים on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he- H8079 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Franz Delitzsch (1875) M. G. Easton, transl., Biblical commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon, volume 2, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, pages 303–305
- Tova Forti (2008) Animal Imagery in the Book of Proverbs (Supplements to Vetus Testamentum; 118), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 116
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “שְׂמָמִית”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 666c
- “שממית” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
