. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Tortoise (Emya Cai^ica).— Fbn.; TOU TRA 1135 which occurs only in Lev. xi. 29, as the name ofsome unclean animal. Bochart with much reason(so Mr. Houghton, with Gesenius, Fiirst, W. L. Alex-ander [in Kitto], &c.) refers the Hebrew term tothe kindred Arabic dhab, a large kind of lizard,apparently the terrestrial monitor or skink of Egypt(Psammosaurus Scincvs or Monitor terrestris of Cu-vier), which is three or four feet long, and commonin the deserts of Palestine and N. Africa. (in Fairbairn) favors the rendering tortoise,in which the A. V. f
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Tortoise (Emya Cai^ica).— Fbn.; TOU TRA 1135 which occurs only in Lev. xi. 29, as the name ofsome unclean animal. Bochart with much reason(so Mr. Houghton, with Gesenius, Fiirst, W. L. Alex-ander [in Kitto], &c.) refers the Hebrew term tothe kindred Arabic dhab, a large kind of lizard,apparently the terrestrial monitor or skink of Egypt(Psammosaurus Scincvs or Monitor terrestris of Cu-vier), which is three or four feet long, and commonin the deserts of Palestine and N. Africa. (in Fairbairn) favors the rendering tortoise,in which the A. V. follows Elias Levita. Variousfresh-water tortoises, land-tortoises, and sea-tor-toises are found in Palestine and its Emys Caspicais a marsh tortoise, found in Eu-rope, Palestine, &c. Palestine, Terrestrial Monitor or Skiufc of Egypt (Psammosaurus Scincus). Ton (Heb.) = Toi (1 Chr. xviii 9, 10). *T0W [to], the A. V. translation of—1. = low, as shaken or beaten off from flax,Gesenius, Fiirst (Judg. xvi. 9; Is. i. 31).—2. = a wick, as made of linen, Ges. (xliii. 17);elsewhere = flax, A. V., Gesenius, Tower (Heb. migdAl, migdol, &c.; Gr. purgos).For towers as parts of city-walls, or as strongholdsof refuge in villages, see Antonia ; Fenckd City \Hananeel ; Jerusalem ; Lachish ; Meah ; Migdol ;Ophel ; Siloam ; War, &c. Watch-towers or forti-fied posts in frontier or exposed situations are men-tioned in Scripture, as the tower of Edar, Lebanon,&c. (Gen. xxxv. 21 ; Mic. iv. 8 ; Is. xxi. 5, 8,11, &c.;Shepherd). Remains of such fortifications may stillbe seen, which probably have succeeded to more an-cient structures built in the same places for like pur-poses. Towers were also built in vineyards as analmost necessary appendage to
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