Liddell-Scott-Jones

χελώνη (chelōnē) a tortoise ^G:N-F

χελώνη-η, ἡ,

tortoise, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. χερσαία[Refs 5th c.BC+]; of slowness, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

__2 ποντιὰς χ. turtle, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II tortoise-shell, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II.2 sounding-board of lyre, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III pent-house or shed for protecting beseigers, χ. ξυλίνη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. χωστρίς, used to protect sappers and miners, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κριοφόρος, to cover the battering-ram, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
__III.b = Latin testudo, overlapping shields, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III.2 a kind of frame or cradle, on which heavy weights were moved by means of rollers underneath, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__III.3 footstool, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__III.4 coin bearing the impress of a tortoise, first coined at Aegina, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III.5 plural, hillocks, [LXX]
__III.6 tomb with arched roof, [Refs]
__III.7 a kind of bandage, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III.8 part of a surgical machine, from its slow uniform motion, [Refs 4th c.AD+]
__III.9 ={χελώνηιον}[Refs 3rd c.BC+]

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: LXX.Hos.12.11*}