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zipporah

zipporah


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Zipporah 
  a  female  bird.  Reuel's  daughter,  who  became  the  wife  of  Moses 
  (Ex.  2:21).  In  consequence  of  the  event  recorded  in  Ex  4:24-26, 
  she  and  her  two  sons,  Gershom  and  Eliezer,  when  so  far  on  the 
  way  with  Moses  toward  Egypt,  were  sent  back  by  him  to  her  own 
  kinsfolk,  the  Midianites  with  whom  they  sojourned  till  Moses 
  afterwards  joined  them  (18:2-6). 
 
 
  From  Hitchcock's  Bible  Names  Dictionary  (late  1800's)  [hitchcock]: 
 
  Zipporah,  beauty;  trumpet;  mourning