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# קִפּוֹז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7091

**arrow-snake** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

arrow-snake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7091/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִפּוֹז: n.f. arrow-snake [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7091/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. arrow-snake (Arabic قِفَّازَةٌ, so BoHieroz. Pars post. iii. cap. 11 (citing Avicenna ii. 139, 16, cf. Thes LagBN 89), and most moderns; cf. Dozyii. 383 PS1375 ad fin.; = ἀκοντίας AelianHist. Anim. vi. 18, viii. 13, called ק׳ as leaping from trees on passers-by; but ag. this v. Houghton Acad. Apr. 24, 1886, 292 f. (arrow-snake does not incubate) PostHast.DB iii. 637 who conj. an owl (as AV));—Is 34:15, token of desolation.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 34:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/#tree)

שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפּוֹז֙ וַתְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּבָקְעָ֖ה וְדָגְרָ֣ה בְצִלָּ֑הּ אַךְ־שָׁ֛ם נִקְבְּצ֥וּ דַיּ֖וֹת אִשָּׁ֥ה רְעוּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* there (to) it.will.make.a.nest arrow.snake\[s\] and it.laid.eggs and it.will.hatch and it.will.gather.a.brood in shadow its surely there they.will.be.gathered red.kites each companion its

*JPS 1917:* There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7091.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7091/): 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).