What does the name Zipporah mean?

Zipporah is a Hebrew name meaning bird. Tsipporah, Moses' wife.

Zipporah Bird

Zipporah is a Hebrew name meaning bird, said tsip-po-raw'. Moses' wife, a daughter of the priest of Midian, who met him at a well in the wilderness.

Meaning: BirdOrigin: HebrewSaid: tsip-po-raw'Strong's: H6855In the KJV: 3 verses

צִפֹּרָה Tsippôrâh — Tsipporah, Moses' wife. Strong's H6855 derives it: feminine of H6833 (צִפּוֹר); bird.

The name appears in 3 verses, first at Exodus 2:21.

And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

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.

Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,