Bible Dictionary · T
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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
