7091. קִפּוֹז (qippoz) -- perhaps arrow snake

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qippoz: perhaps arrow snake

Original Word: קִפּוֹז
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qippoz
Phonetic Spelling: (kip-poze')
Short Definition: snake

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קִמּוֺז noun feminine arrow-snake (Arabic , so Bo^{Hieroz. Pars post. iii. Cap. 11} (citing Avicenna^{ii. 139, 16,} compare Thes Lag^{BN 89}), and most moderns; compare Dozy^{ii. 383} PS^{1375ad. Fin}.; = ἀκοντίας Aelian^{Hist. Anim. Vi. 18, viii. 13}, called ׳ק as leaping from trees on passers-by; but against this see Houghton^{Acad. Apr. 24, 1886, 292 f.} (arrow-snake does not incubate) Post^{Hast. DB iii. 637} who conjectures an owl (as AV)); — Isaiah 34:15, token of desolation.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

great owl

From an unused root meaning to contract, i.e. Spring forward; an arrow-snake (as darting on its prey) -- great owl.

Forms and Transliterations

קִפּוֹז֙ קפוז kippOz qip·pō·wz qippōwz

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