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H8580

תנשמת

תנשמת
thanashamath

Feminine noun · From נשם (H5395)

From H5395; properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen:—mole, swan.

Outline

  1. an unclean animal of some kind
    1. an unclean bird
      1. perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl
    2. an unclean lizard
      1. perhaps the chameleon
    3. perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown

Usages

Leviticus 11:18

And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

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Leviticus 11:30

And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

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Deuteronomy 14:16

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

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