Snail

How Nave’s arranged it

• (A crustacean)
• Forbidden as foodLeviticus 11:30
• PerishablePsalms 58:8

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. Leviticus 11:30

   the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 11:302 voices

   “And the ferret,....

   “The ferret - אנקה anakah, from אנק anak, to groan, to cry out: a species of lizard, which derives its name from its piercing, doleful cry. See Bochart, vol. ii., col. 10

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2. Psalms 58:8

   Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

   ›Commentary on Psalms 58:82 voices

   “Ver. 8. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away. As the snail makes its own way by its slime, and so dissolves as it goes, or as its shell is often found empty, as though the inhabitant had melted away, so shall the malicious eat out their own strength while they proceed upon their malevolent designs, and shall themselves disappear. To destroy himself by envy and chagrin is the portion of the ill disposed. Like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

   “As a snail which melteth, let everyone of them pass away,.... As a snail when it comes out of its shell liquefies, drops its moisture, and with it makes a "path", from whence it has its name שבלול, in the Hebrew language; and so the Targum here, "as the snail moistens its way;'' which moistness it gradually exhausts, and melts away, and dies: so the psalmist prays that everyone of his enemies might die in like manner.

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