Tortoise (Easton)

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(Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals ( Leviticus 11:29 ). Land tortoises are common in Syria. The LXX. renders the word by "land crocodile." The word, however, more probably denotes a lizard, called by the modern Arabs Dhabb .

Source

• part_of source-manifest/easton — Easton's Bible Dictionary (PD)