Meaning
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" (Exod 25:5, Exod 26:14, Exod 35:7, Exod 35:23, Exod 36:19, Exod 39:34, Num 4:6, Num 4:8, Num 4:10, Num 4:11, Num 4:12, Num 4:14, Num 4:25, Ezek 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.
