(Hebrews 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.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.

2. (n.) Same as Testudo.

3. (n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.

4. (n.) a tortoise-shell cat.