Lexical Summary qippoz: perhaps arrow snake Original Word: קִפוֹזTransliteration: qippoz Phonetic Spelling: (kip-poze') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps arrow snake Meaning: spring forward, an arrow-snake Strong's Concordance great owl From an unused root meaning to contract, i.e. Spring forward; an arrow-snake (as darting on its prey) -- great owl. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7091. qippoz קִמּוֺז noun feminine arrow-snake (Arabic , so BoHieroz. Pars post. iii. Cap. 11 (citing Avicennaii. 139, 16, compare Thes LagBN 89), and most moderns; compare Dozyii. 383 PS1375ad. Fin.; = ἀκοντίας AelianHist. Anim. Vi. 18, viii. 13, called ׳ק as leaping from trees on passers-by; but against this see HoughtonAcad. Apr. 24, 1886, 292 f. (arrow-snake does not incubate) PostHast. DB iii. 637 who conjectures an owl (as AV)); — Isaiah 34:15, token of desolation. |
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