Dict: easton - Tortoise
easton:
Tortoise
@ (Heb. tsabh). Ranked among the unclean animals kjv@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.
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