7091. qippoz

Lexicon

qippoz: Darting serpent, arrow-snake

Original Word: קִפוֹז
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qippowz
Pronunciation: kip-POHZ
Phonetic Spelling: (kip-poze')
KJV: great owl
NASB: tree snake
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning to contract, i.e. spring forward]

1. an arrow-snake (as darting on its prey)

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.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
perhaps arrow snake
NASB Translation
tree 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.

Forms and Transliterations

קִפּוֹז֙ קפוז kippOz qip·pō·wz qippōwz

Englishman's Concordance

Isaiah 34:15
HEB: שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפּוֹז֙ וַתְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּבָקְעָ֖ה
NAS: The tree snake will make its nest
KJV: There shall the great owl make her nest,
INT: there will make the tree and lay will hatch

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 7091
1 Occurrence

qip·pō·wz — 1 Occ.