χελώνη
G9715 · chelōnē · greek
a tortoise
This number is not attached to any word in the tagged text. The tagged corpus covers the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament; the deuterocanon is untagged.
No parsed forms recorded for this number.
G9715 G:N-F
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)
Language tools
Lexicon: Tyndale Brief lexicon of Extended Strong's, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Tagged text: STEPBible TAHOT / TAGNT, CC BY 4.0.