STRONGS NUMBER H1744


Word Summary
dukiphath: perhaps hoopoe (a ceremonially unclean bird)
Original Word: דּוּכִיפַת
Transliteration: dukiphath
Phonetic Spelling: (doo-kee-fath')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: perhaps hoopoe (a ceremonially unclean bird)
Meaning: perhaps hoopoe (a ceremonially unclean bird)
Strong's Concordance
lapwing

Of uncertain derivation; the hoopoe or else the grouse -- lapwing.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1744. dukiphath

דּוּכִיפַתnoun feminine an unclean bird, perhaps hoopoe, ᵑ9 ᵐ5‎ Saad and others (compare Di Kn Leviticus 11:19) 11:19; Deuteronomy 14:18. **דּוּכִיפַת‎, name of bird: possibly of Egyptian origin, BondiZMG 1 {1896}, 292 (Arabic, Ol§ 221 compare KöET ix {1898}, 476).

דום‎ (Late Hebrew דוםspread slander, perhaps originally whisper, compare דממה דמם,‎).