Bible Dictionaries
Tortoise

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

TORTOISE ( tsâb , Leviticus 11:29 RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘great lizard’). Several kinds of land and water tortoises are common in the Holy Land, but here the reference is probably to some kind of lizard. See Lizard.

E. W. G. Masterman.

Bibliography Information
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Tortoise'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​t/tortoise.html. 1909.