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# קִפֹּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7090

**porcupine** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

porcupine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7090/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִפֹּד: porcupine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7090/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] porcupine (from rolling itself together; 𝔊 ἐχῖνοι (always pl.), 𝔙 ericius, BoHieroz. iii. cap. 36 Post Hastings DB bittern; \> (from context) bittern TrNHB\> 243 Hi Che GuKau; v. discussion by M\`Lean-Shipley Ency. Bib. bittern);—ק׳ as haunting desolate places, Is 14:23; Zp 2:14, קִפּוֹד Is 34:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hedgehog (2); of hedgehog\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.23/#tree)

וְשַׂמְתִּ֛יהָ לְמוֹרַ֥שׁ קִפֹּ֖ד וְאַגְמֵי־מָ֑יִם וְטֵֽאטֵאתִ֙יהָ֙ בְּמַטְאֲטֵ֣א הַשְׁמֵ֔ד נְאֻ֖ם יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃פ

*Word for word:* and I will.make.it (into).a possession of.hedgehog\[s\] and pools of.water and I will.sweep.it.away with a.broom of.destruction the.utterance of.Yahweh of.hosts

*JPS 1917:* 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.

[Isaiah 34:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.11/#tree)

וִירֵשׁ֙וּהָ֙ קָאַ֣ת וְקִפּ֔וֹד וְיַנְשׁ֥וֹף וְעֹרֵ֖ב יִשְׁכְּנוּ־בָ֑הּ וְנָטָ֥ה עָלֶ֛יהָ קַֽו־תֹ֖הוּ וְאַבְנֵי־בֹֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they will.take.possession.of.it desert.owl and hedgehog and great.owl and raven they.will.dwell in it and he.will.stretch.out over it a.measuring-line of.formlessness and stones of.emptiness

*JPS 1917:* But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7090.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7090/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).