Lexical Definition

‎קִפּוֹד‎ qippôwd (kip-pode') porcupine ^H:N-M
or קִפֹּד qippôd (kip-pode'); from ‎קָפַד‎

bittern.

• a species of bird, perhaps the bittern (from its contracted form)

1) porcupine, hedgehog
1a) a shrinking animal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קִפֹּד‎ noun [masculine] porcupine (from rolling itself together; ᵐ5 ἐχῖνοι (always plural), ᵑ9 ericius, Bo^{Hieroz. Iii, cap. 36} Post^{Hastings DB BITTEBN}; > (from context) bittern Tr^{NHB 243} Hi Che Gu Kau; see discussion by M'Lean-Shipley^{Ency. Bib. BITTERN}); — ‎׳‎‎ק‎ as haunting desolate places, Isa 14:23; Zeph 2:14, ‎קִפּוֺד‎ Isa 34:11.

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