Bible Dictionary
Snail
The Bible uses two different terms sometimes translated snail: one probably denotes a sand-lizard, while the other refers to a snail or slug whose trail suggested melting away.
Biblical Usage
The first term occurs in the list of unclean creeping things in Leviticus. The second appears in Psalm 58:8 in the comparison, “Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away.”
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