King James Bible Dictionary

1. Heb. homit, among the unclean creeping things (Leviticus 11:30). This was probably the sand-lizard, of which there are many species in the wilderness of Judea and the Sinai peninsula.

2. Heb. shablul (Psalms 58:8), the snail or slug proper. Tristram explains the allusions of this passage by a reference to the heat and drought by which the moisture of the snail is evaporated. "We find," he says, "in all parts of the Holy Land myriads of snail-shells in fissures still adhering by the calcareous exudation round their orifice to the surface of the rock, but the animal of which is utterly shrivelled and wasted, 'melted away.'"

A crustacean.

Forbidden as food
Leviticus 11:30

Perishable
Psalms 58:8

1. The Hebrew word shablul occurs only in (Psalms 58:8) The rendering of the Authorized Version is probably correct. The term would denote either a limax or a helix , which are particularly noticeable for the slimy track they leave behind them, by which they seem to waste themselves away. To this, or to the fact that many of them are shrivelled up among the rocks in the long heat of the summer, the psalmist refers.
2. The Hebrew word chomet occurs only as the name of some unclean animal in (Leviticus 11:30) Perhaps some kind of lizard may be intended.

SNAIL, noun

1. A slimy slow creeping animal, of the genus Helix, and order of Mollusca. The eyes of this insect are in the horns, one at the end of each, which it can retract at pleasure.

2. A drone; a slow moving person.

SNAIL-CLAVER, SNAIL-TREFOIL, noun A plant of the genus Medicago.

SNA'IL-FLOWER, noun A plant of the genus Phaseolus.

SNA'IL-LIKE, adjective Resembling a snail; moving very slowly.

SNA'IL-LIKE, adverb In the manner of a snail; slowly.

SNAIL-CLAVER, SNAIL-TREFOIL noun A plant of the genus Medicago.