PORPOISE

ISBE

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" ( Ex 25:5 ; 26:14 ; 35:7 , 23 ; 36:19 ; 39:34 ; Nu 4:6 , 8 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 14 , 25 ; Eze 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 .