Word Study · Strong's H8580 · Hebrew
תַּנְשֶׁמֶת
tanshemeth
tan-sheh'-meth
“properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen
Rendered in the KJV as
mole, swan.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃2
- הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת1
How it is rendered · 3
- and the barn owl1
- and the chameleon1
- the barn owl1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1
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- HC/Td/Ncfsa · 2
- HTd/Ncfsa · 1
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Where this word lives
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Leviticus2 occurrences
- Leviticus 11:18הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶתhatinshemetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singularthe white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,here: the barn owl
- Leviticus 11:30וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃vehatinshametconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singularthe gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.here: and the chameleon