Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
(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.