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Hebrew 'anaqah, from 'aanaq "to groan." Gosse refers it to the house mouse, from its squeak. Rather the gecko, which croaks as a frog and has feet so formed as to walk on the ceilings of houses which it enters (, Speaker's Commentary). It is enumerated with unclean creeping things, which favors the view that some lizard is meant.