The meaning of Porpoise in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

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" (Exodus 25:5; Exodus 26:14; Exodus 35:7, Exodus 35:23; Exodus 36:19; Exodus 39:34; Numbers 4:6, Numbers 4:8, Numbers 4:10-12, Numbers 4:14, Numbers 4:25; Ezekiel 16:10)): The word denotes leather used in the furnishings of the tabernacle (for shoes in Ezekiel 16:10), and was probably the skin of the dugong, Halichore dugong, Arabic tukhas, which is found in the Red Sea.

See BADGER.

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