Zipporah

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zipporah
     a female bird. Reuel's daughter, who became the wife of Moses
     (Ex. 2:21). In consequence of the event recorded in Ex. 4:24-26,
     she and her two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, when so far on the
     way with Moses toward Egypt, were sent back by him to her own
     kinsfolk, the Midianites, with whom they sojourned till Moses


     afterwards joined them (18:2-6).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Zipporah, beauty; trumpet; mourning