- צִיפּ׳
- צִפּוֹרָה, צִיפּ׳(b. h. צִפֹּרָה) pr. n. f. Zipporah (Bird), wife of Moses. M. Kat. 16b (ref. to Num. 12:1) וכי כושית שמה והלא צ׳וכ׳ was her name Kushith? Was not Z. her name? Ex. R. s. 1 נקרא שמה צ׳ … כציפור she was named Zipporah (bird), because she sped like a bird (to bring Moses to her fathers house); a. e.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
