. A dictionary of the Bible .. . aud dubie nly post pip est subaudiendum ( ad Zeph. ii. 14). See on this subject the excellentremarks of Harmer (Odsti-u. iii. p. 100). xxxii BITTERN aquatic bird, wliicli might well be represented bythe bittern, as the A. V. has it; but the passage inZephaniah which spenks of Nineveh being madedry like a wilderness, does not at tirst sightappear to be so strictly suited to this , Lee, Parkhurst, Winer, Fiirst, all givehedgehog or porcupine as the representativeof the Hebrew word; but neither of these twoanimals ever lodges on
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . aud dubie nly post pip est subaudiendum ( ad Zeph. ii. 14). See on this subject the excellentremarks of Harmer (Odsti-u. iii. p. 100). xxxii BITTERN aquatic bird, wliicli might well be represented bythe bittern, as the A. V. has it; but the passage inZephaniah which spenks of Nineveh being madedry like a wilderness, does not at tirst sightappear to be so strictly suited to this , Lee, Parkhurst, Winer, Fiirst, all givehedgehog or porcupine as the representativeof the Hebrew word; but neither of these twoanimals ever lodges on the chapiters ^ of columns,nor is it their nature to frequent pools of less unhappy is the i-eading of the Arabic ver-sion cl-hoicbara, a species of bustard—the Hoiiharaundulata, see Ibis. i. 284—which is a dweller indry regions and quite incapable of roosting. Weare inclined to believe that the A. V. is correct, andthat the bittern is the bird denoted by the originalword ; as to the objection alluded to above that. Botaurus steUartt. this bird is a lover of marshes and pools, and wouldnot therefore be found in a locality which is drylike a wilderness, a little reflection will convincetlie reader that the difficulty is more apparent thanreal. Nineveh might be made dry like a wilder-ness, but the bittern would find an abode in theTigris which flows through the plain of Mesopo-tamia ; as to the bittern perching on the chapitersof ruined columns, it is quite probable that this birdmay occasionally do so ; indeed Col. H. Smith(Kittos Ci/clop. art. Kippod) says, though notbuilding like the stork on the tops of houses, itresorts like the heron to ruined structures, and wehave been informed that it has been seen on thesummit of Tank Kisra at Ctesiphon. Again, aswas noticed above, there seems to be a connexionbetween the Hebrew kippod and the Arabic kurv-fud, hedgehog. Some lexicogi-aphers refer theHebrew word to a Syriac root which means to = Such is no doubt the meaning
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