1. (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

2. (n.) The Canadian porcupine.

3. (n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.

4. (n.) A form of dredging machine.

HEDGEHOG

hej'-hog Septuagint echinos, "hedgehog," for qippodh, in Isaiah 14:23; Isaiah 34:11; Ze 2:14, and for qippoz, in Isaiah 34:15).

See PORCUPINE; BITTERN; OWL; SERPENT.

7090. qippod -- porcupine
qippod or qippod. 7089, 7090. qippod or qippod. 7091 . porcupine. Transliteration:
qippod or qippod Phonetic Spelling: (kip-pode') Short Definition: hedgehog ...
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On the Words of the Gospel, Luke vii. 37, "And Behold, a Woman who ...
... One comes with supplication, a sinner covered over with thorns as a hedgehog,
and timid exceedingly as a hare. But the rock is the ...
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Psalm CIV.
... what of the hedgehog? The hare is a small and weak animal: the hedgehog is also
prickly: the one is a timid animal, the other is covered with prickles. ...
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Of the Loving Recollection of the Soul in Contemplation.
... The Blessed Mother (S.) Teresa of Jesus says: "He who has written that the prayer
of recollection is made as when a hedgehog or tortoise draws itself within ...
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Of the Perfection of Prayer to which we Can Rise by the System ...
... being content with his own simple condition endeavours simply to defend himself
from being spoiled by his foes, and becomes a sort of spiritual hedgehog and is ...
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The Tenth Commandment
... The hedgehog, in the fable, came to the cony-burrows, in stormy weather, and desired
harbour; but when once he had got entertainment, he set up his prickles ...
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On the Animals
... [Ps.103(104):18 Vulgate]. The hedgehog is as above; and the hedgehogs are
a weak nation, who make their homes among the rocks. The ...
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To Sister Eugenia, Her Niece at the Convent of Saint Agnes of ...
... Then, hold thy head bowed, and be as savage as a hedgehog. Keep in thy mind the
manners which that glorious virgin Saint Agnes made her daughters observe. ...
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The Creation of Terrestrial Animals.
... by common consent? Studious observers have remarked that the hedgehog makes
an opening at the two extremities of his hole. If the ...
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Psalm LXXI.
... my refuge Thou art." For I will confess mine infirmity, to the end that I may be
timid like a "hare," because I am full of thorns like a "hedgehog." And as in ...
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The Iranian Conquest
... Asha-vahista will condemn to hell the cruel man who has ill-treated the ox, or allowed
his flocks to suffer; and the killing of a hedgehog is no less severely ...
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Hedgehog (3 Occurrences)
...HEDGEHOG. hej'-hog Septuagint echinos, "hedgehog," for qippodh, in Isaiah
14:23; Isaiah 34:11; Ze 2:14, and for qippoz, in Isaiah 34:15). ...
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Porcupine (3 Occurrences)
... 34:11 Zephaniah 2:14) the King James Version "bittern," the Revised Version (British
and American) "porcupine"; Septuagint echinos "hedgehog"; qippoz (Isaiah 34 ...
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Serpent (40 Occurrences)
... The renderings "dart-snake" and "arrowsnake" rest on the authority of Bochert, but
Septuagint has echinos, "hedgehog," and Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390 ...
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Zoology
... For further notices of animals in the following list, see the articles referring
to them: Mammals: PRIMATES: Ape INSECTIVORA: Hedgehog. ...
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Owl (11 Occurrences)
... Revised Version, "arrow-snake;" LXX. and Vulgate, "hedgehog," reading in
the text, kippod, instead of kippoz. There is no reason ...
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Owls (7 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water:
and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of ...
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Goat (92 Occurrences)
... before them like two little flocks of kids." Next, frequently used is sa`ir, literally,
"hairy" (compare Arabic sha`r, "hair"; cher, "hedgehog"; Latin hircus ...
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Ferret (1 Occurrence)
... The LXX. translate it by a word meaning "shrew-mouse," of which there are three
species in Palestine. The Rabbinical writers regard it as the hedgehog. ...
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Brush (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water:
and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of ...
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Swamps (2 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water:
and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of ...
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Hedgehog (3 Occurrences)

Isaiah 14:23 And I will make you a heritage for the hedgehog, and pools of water: and I will go through it with the brush of destruction, says the Lord of armies.
(BBE NAS RSV)

Isaiah 34:11 And possess her do pelican and hedge-hog, And owl and raven dwell in her, And He hath stretched out over her A line of vacancy, and stones of emptiness.
(See NAS)

Zephaniah 2:14 And crouched in her midst have droves, Every beast of the nation, Both pelican and hedge-hog in her knobs lodge, A voice doth sing at the window, 'Destruction 'is' at the threshold, For the cedar-work is exposed.'
(See NAS RSV)

Hedgehog

Porcupine (3 Occurrences)

Serpent (40 Occurrences)

Zoology

Owl (11 Occurrences)

Owls (7 Occurrences)

Goat (92 Occurrences)

Ferret (1 Occurrence)

Brush (1 Occurrence)

Swamps (2 Occurrences)

Swampland (1 Occurrence)

Hedged (6 Occurrences)

Hedge-hog (2 Occurrences)

Bittern (4 Occurrences)

Declares (378 Occurrences)

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