GREEK · G21338
χελώνινος
chelōninos — made of tortoise-shell
made of tortoise-shell
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Tortoise
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GREEK · G8561
ὄστρακον
ostrakon — a potsherd
1. an earthen vessel , Lat. testa, (Aristophanes Comicus) 2. a tile or potsherd , especially the tablet used in voting (see. ὀστρακίζω); (Plato Philosophus) 3. a sort of earthenware castanet , (Aristophanes Comicus) 4. the hard shell of testaceous animals , as snails, muscles, tortoises, (Homeric Hymns) (ML)
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χελώνη
chelōnē — a tortoise
1. a tortoise , (Homeric Hymns); prov. of insensibility, ἰὼ χελῶναι μακάριαι τοῦ δέρματος oh ye tortoises , happy in your thick skins! (Aristophanes Comicus) 2. like Roman testudo, a pent-house formed of shields overlapping each other like the scales on a tortoise's back , used by storming parties in approaching a city's walls: then, generally, a pent-house for protecting besiegers, (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)
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(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.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.