Porpoise
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ISBE 1915
por'-pus (the Revised Version margin has "porpoise-skin" for `or tachash, the Revised Version (British and American) "sealskin," the King James Version "badgers' skins" (Ex 25:5; 26:14; 35:7,23; 36:19; 39:34; Nu 4:6,8,10,11,12,14,25; Eze 16:10)): The word denotes leather used in the furnishings of the tabernacle (for shoes in Eze 16:10), and was probably the skin of the dugong, Halichore dugong, Arabic tukhas, which is found in the Red Sea.
See BADGER.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · public domain
In Scripture
Exodus 25:5Exodus 26:14Exodus 35:7Exodus 35:23Exodus 36:19Exodus 39:34Numbers 4:6Numbers 4:8Numbers 4:10Numbers 4:11Numbers 4:12Numbers 4:14Numbers 4:25Ezekiel 16:10
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