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" (Ex 25:5;26:14;35:7,23;36:19;39:34;Nu 4:6,8,10,11,12,14,25;Eze 16:10)): The word denotes leather used in the furnishings of the tabernacle (for shoes inEze 16:10), and was probably the skin of the dugong, Halichore dugong, Arabic tukhas, which is found in the Red Sea.
SeeBADGER.