תִּנְשֶׁמֶת

Biblical Hebrew

hard breather — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

hard breather tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת: n.f. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. an animal;—ת׳ Lv 11:18, תִּנְשָּׁ֑מֶת Lv 11:30 Dt 14:16:— unclean bird, the ibis, water-hen, 𝔊 πορφυρίων, (acc. TristrNHB 249); or species of owl (Di Bu SS); pelican (Ges): Lv 11:18 = Dt 14:16. unclean שֶׁרֶץ Lv 11:30, lizard (Saad TristrNHB 120), or chameleon (BoHieroz. i. 1078 ff.; ed. Rosenm. ii. 503 ff.), so most; (deriving name from alleged living on air, PlinNH viii. 51; but this not applicable to 1; cf. LagBN 130 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: owl (2).

In the verses

Deuteronomy 14:16 · tree →

אֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

Word for word: (et) the.little owl and (et) the.great owl and the.barn owl

JPS 1917: the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

Leviticus 11:18 · tree →

וְאֶת־הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת וְאֶת־הַקָּאָ֖ת וְאֶת־הָרָחָֽם׃

Word for word: and (et) the.barn owl and (et) the.desert owl and (et) the.Egyptian vulture

JPS 1917: and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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