Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8580
תַּנְשֶׁמֶת
tanshemethtan-sheh'-meth
chameleon
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8580is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8580
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
The King James renders it: mole, swan.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tanshemeth is rendered "chameleon". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
Leviticus 11:18הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and the barn owl1
- and the chameleon1
- the barn owl1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃2
- הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Td/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Leviticus
two uses
the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
- הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶתhatinshemetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the barn owl
the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
- וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃vehatinshametconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the chameleon
Deuteronomy
one use
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
- וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃vehatinshametconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the barn owl
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.