From an unused root meaning to contract, i.e. Spring forward; an arrow-snake (as darting on its prey) -- great owl.
Englishman's Concordance
1) arrow snake, owl 1a) meaning dubious Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to contract, i.e. spring forward Same Word by TWOT Number: 2050a
Brown-Driver-Briggs
קִמּוֺזnoun femininearrow-snake (Arabic , so BoHieroz. Pars post. iii. Cap. 11 (citing Avicennaii. 139, 16, compare Thes LagBN 89), and most moderns; compare Dozyii. 383 PS1375ad. Fin.;=ἀκοντίας AelianHist. Anim. Vi. 18, viii. 13, called ׳ק as leaping from trees on passers-by; but against this see HoughtonAcad. Apr. 24, 1886, 292 f. (arrow-snake does not incubate) PostHast. DB iii. 637 who conjectures an owl (as AV)); — Isaiah 34:15, token of desolation.
Isaiah 34:15 HEB:שָׁ֣מָּה קִנְּנָ֤ה קִפּוֹז֙ וַתְּמַלֵּ֔ט וּבָקְעָ֖ה NAS:The tree snake will make its nest KJV:There shall the great owl make her nest, INT: there will make the tree and lay will hatch