King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7090
Transliteration: qippod
Phonetic Spelling: (kip-pode')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: porcupine
Meaning: a species of bird, the bittern
Word Summary
qippod: porcupine
Original Word: קִפוֹדTransliteration: qippod
Phonetic Spelling: (kip-pode')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: porcupine
Meaning: a species of bird, the bittern
Strong's Concordance
bittern Or qippod {kip-pode'}; from qaphad; a species of bird, perhaps the bittern (from its contracted form) -- bittern.
see HEBREW qaphad
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7090. qippod
קִמֹּד noun [masculine] porcupine (from rolling itself together; ᵐ5 ἐχῖνοι (always plural), ᵑ9 ericius, BoHieroz. Iii, cap. 36 PostHastings DB BITTEBN; > (from context) bittern TrNHB 243 Hi Che Gu Kau; see discussion by M'Lean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. BITTERN); — ׳ק as haunting desolate places, Isaiah 14:23; Zephaniah 2:14, קִמּוֺד Isaiah 34:11.