shaphan

Since the Semitic name for hyrax was shaphan ( "one who hides"), the Phoenicians named the peninsula l-shepan-im, from which the Latin name Hispania developed.

14 Domestic Rabbit 1991

Such is the hippopotamus, and such is the hyrax, the remarkable rock-haunting animal, which in the authorised translation of the Scriptures is called the "coney," and which in the Revised Version is allowed in the margin to retain its Hebrew name, "shaphan."

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 Various

(Heb. shaphan; i.e., "the hider"), an animal which inhabits the mountain gorges and the rocky districts of Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.

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(shaphan), a gregarious animal of the class Pachydermata, which is found in Palestine, living in the caves and clefts of the rocks, and has been erroneously identified with the rabbit or coney.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884