Strong's #2546: chomet (pronounced kho'met)

from an unused root probably meaning, to lie low; a lizard (as creeping):--snail.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

chômeṭ

1) a kind of lizard, only in list of unclean animals

1a) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning is unknown

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning, to lie low

Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

 

Leviticus 11:30: "And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole."