Topic
Porpoise
14 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 25:5ISBE · Nave (Margin, R. V.)
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Exodus 26:14ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
- Exodus 36:19ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
- Exodus 39:34ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,
- Exodus 35:7ISBE
And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,
- Exodus 35:23ISBE
And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.
- Numbers 4:6ISBE
And shall put thereon the covering of badgers’ skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Numbers 4:8ISBE
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Numbers 4:10ISBE
And they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put it upon a bar.
- Numbers 4:11ISBE
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
- Numbers 4:12ISBE
And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar:
- Numbers 4:14ISBE
And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to…
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- Numbers 4:25 ISBE
- Ezekiel 16:10 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 15 references
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.
In the topical indexes
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.