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).
- Exod.2: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
- Exod.4: Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
- Exod.18: Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,