◄ 3244. yanshuph or yanshoph ► |
Lexicon yanshuph or yanshoph: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl Original Word: יַנְשׁוֹףPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: yanshuph or yanshoph Phonetic Spelling: (yan-shoof') Short Definition: owl NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom nashaphDefinition(a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl NASB Translationgreat owl (2), owl (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs יַנְשׁוּף and (Isaiah 34:11) יַנְשׁוֺף noun [masculine] a bird (with harsh, strident note ? Bo Heroz, ii. 284; ed. Rosenm. iii. 29, Tristr NHB 192 think of נֶשֶׁף — i.e. a twilight bird; on formative compare Lag BN 127 Ba NB 231); — unclean Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16; inhabiting deserts Isaiah 34:11. Probably a kind of owl Bo l.c., ' Great Owl,' Egyptian Eagle-owl ( bubo ascalaphus) Tristr l.c. compare ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Di Dr - White Hpt (Leviticus), > ᵐ5. ᵑ9 Leviticus, Isaiah ibis. Strong's great owl Or yanshowph {yan-shofe'}; apparently from nashaph; an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant (compare nesheph))) -- (great) owl.s see HEBREW nashaph see HEBREW nesheph |
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