Porcupine
קִפֹּדStrong’s H7090qippod (qip-pod)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qippod is the Hebrew word usually translated “hedgehog”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.”
Meaning
- Porcupine, hedgehoga shrinking animal
How it's translated
- hedgehog 2
- and hedgehog 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Zephaniah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 34:11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
- Zephaniah 2:14And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Hebrew dictionary
קִפֹּד qippod · porcupine
1) porcupine, hedgehog 1a) a shrinking animal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “porcupine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POR'CUPINE, noun
[Latin porcus; spina, a spine or thorn.]
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.