Lexicon qippoz: perhaps arrow snake Original Word: קִפּוֹזPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: qippoz Phonetic Spelling: (kip-poze') Short Definition: snake NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionperhaps arrow snake NASB Translationtree snake (1).
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 great owl From an unused root meaning to contract, i.e. Spring forward; an arrow-snake (as darting on its prey) -- great owl. |
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