Isaiah 34:15

“There shall the great owl make her nest, &c.] Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, say that “kippoz” here is the same with “kippod”, rendered “bittern” in (<233411>Isaiah 34:11) but Aben Ezra takes them to be two different birds; it is hard to say what is designed by it. Bochart thinks that one kind of serpent is here meant, so called from its leaping up, and which may be said to make nests, lay eggs and hatch them, as follows: and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; lay its eggs, sit upon them, and hatch them; or “break” themf675, that is, the eggs, by sitting on them, when the young ones spring out of them; and then being hatched, and running about, gather them under their wing,…”

“great owl--rather, "the arrow snake," so called from its darting on its prey [GESENIUS]. lay--namely, eggs. gather under her shadow--rather, "cherishes" her young under, &c. (Jer 17:11).”

“There shall the great owl - (קפוז qı̂pôz). Gesenius supposes that this is the arrow-snake, so called from its darting or springing, in the manner of the rattle-snake - from an obsolete root to draw oneself together, to contract. Bochart (Hieroz. ii. 3. 11. 408-419) has examined the meaning of the word at length, and comes to the conclusion that it means the serpent which the Greeks called acontias, and the Latins, jaculus - the arrow-snake. The serpent is oviparous, and nourishes its young. The ancient versions, however, understand it in the same sense as the קפד qippôd in Isaiah 34:11 - the hedgehog or porcupine. Under her shadow - This might be done by the serpent that should coil up and…”