Litter
צָבStrong’s H6632tsav
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “great lizard”, “covering” and “wagons”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,”
Meaning
- A carrying vehicle, litter, covered wagon
- An unclean lizardperhaps a tortoise · perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- and the great lizard 1
- covering 1
- and in wagons 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 7:3And they brought their offering before the LORD, six covered 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 66:20And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, 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.
Hebrew dictionary
צָב tsav · litter
a carrying vehicle, litter, covered wagon
צָב tsav · lizard
1) an unclean lizard 1a) perhaps a tortoise 1b) perhaps an extinct animal, exact meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “litter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LIT'TER, noun
[Latin lectus, from the root of lego, Eng. lay.]
- A vehicle formed with shafts supporting a bed between them, in which a person may be borne by men or by a horse.
- Straw, hay or other soft substance, used as a bed for horses and for other purposes.
- A brood of young pigs, kittens, puppies or other quadrupeds.
- A birth of pigs or other small animals.
All definitions and other forms of “litter”
- Waste matters, shreds, fragments and the like, scattered on a floor or other clean place.
LIT'TER, verb transitive
- To bring forth young, as swine and other small quadrupeds.
- To scatter over carelessly with shreds, fragments and the like; as, to litter a room or a carpet.
- To cover with straw or hay; as, to litter a stable.
- To supply with litter; as to litter cattle.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.