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Tortoise

(Heb. tsabh). This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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Study overview

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H6632
Hebrew
צָב · tsâb

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

צָב

H6632
Transliteration
tsâb
Pronunciation
tsawb
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
3

Glosses

covered, litter, tortoise.

Lexicon definition

a palanquin or canopy (as a fixture)

also a species of lizard (probably as clinging fast)

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Tortoise

(Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals (Lev. 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: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

TORTOISE

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for TORTOISE.

Indexed references: 1

Scripture references:
Leviticus 11:29

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Topic

TORTOISE

Nave’s Topical Bible references for TORTOISE.

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Dictionary

Tortoise

(Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals (Lev. 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.

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Leviticus 1

Leviticus 11:29

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