Tsâb — H6632

Definition

masculine noun

a palanquin or canopy (as a fixture); also a species of lizard (probably as clinging fast)

1. a carrying vehicle, litter, covered wagon
2. an unclean lizard
1. perhaps a tortoise
2. perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown

Usually translated as

covered, tortoise, litter

Origin

from an unused root meaning to establish

Occurrences

Tsâb occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), Numbers (1), Isaiah (1)

• Leviticus 11:29 — These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise (וְהַצָּ֥ב) after his kind,
• Numbers 7:3 — And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered (צָב֙) wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.
• Isaiah 66:20 — And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters (וּבַצַּבִּ֨ים), and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.