STRONGS NUMBER H6632


Word Summary
tsab: a litter
Original Word: צָב
Transliteration: tsab
Phonetic Spelling: (tsawb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a litter
Meaning: a palanquin, canopy, a species of lizard
Strong's Concordance
covered, litter, tortoise

From an unused root meaning to establish; a palanquin or canopy (as a fixture); also a species of lizard (probably as clinging fast) -- covered, litter, tortoise.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6632. tsab

I. צָבnoun [masculine] litter; — absolute ׳צ‎, in צָב עֶגְלֹתNumbers 7:3, probably litter-wagons, i.e. wagons covered, like palanquin; plural צַבִּיםIsaiah 66:20 litters (on Vrss compare DiNu).

II. צבב‎ (√ of following; compare Arabic cleave to ground; Late Hebrew צָב‎ = Biblical Hebrew, Syriac in Lexicons; Arabic is a large lizard, see especially Seetzen:Reisen iii. 436 f f.).

II. צָבnoun [masculine] lizard, as unclean, Leviticus 11:29.