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PORPOISE

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; Ezek 16:10)): The word denotes leather used in the furnishings of the tabernacle (for shoes in Ezek 16:10), and was probably the skin of the dugong, Halichore dugong, Arabic tukhas, which is found in the Red Sea.
See BADGER.
Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'porpoise'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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