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title: קִפּוֹז — arrow-snake · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִפּוֹז (7091), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: arrow-snake. BDB 1906: n.f. arrow-snake. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִפּוֹז

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«קִפּוֹז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **arrow-snake** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7091 · **BDB:** קִפּוֹז

### Glosses

arrow.snake\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

arrow-snake [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7091/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. arrow-snake [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7091/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. arrow-snake (Arabic قِفَّازَةٌ, so BoHieroz. Pars post. iii. cap. 11 (citing Avicenna ii. 139, 16, cf. Thes LagBN 89), and most moderns; cf. Dozyii. 383 PS1375 ad fin.; = ἀκοντίας AelianHist. Anim. vi. 18, viii. 13, called ק׳ as leaping from trees on passers-by; but ag. this v. Houghton Acad. Apr. 24, 1886, 292 f. (arrow-snake does not incubate) PostHast.DB iii. 637 who conj. an owl (as AV));—Is 34:15, token of desolation.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִפּוֹז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7091/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 34:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.34.15/)

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שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפּוֹז֙ וַתְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּבָקְעָ֖ה וְדָגְרָ֣ה בְצִלָּ֑הּ אַךְ־שָׁ֛ם נִקְבְּצ֥וּ דַיּ֖וֹת אִשָּׁ֥ה רְעוּתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* there (to) it.will.make.a.nest arrow.snake\[s\] and it.laid.eggs and it.will.hatch and it.will.gather.a.brood in shadow its surely there they.will.be.gathered red.kites each companion its

*JPS 1917:* There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

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