Lexicon tachmas: male ostrich Original Word: תַּחְמָסPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: tachmas Phonetic Spelling: (takh-mawce') Short Definition: owl NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom chamasDefinitionmale ostrich NASB Translationowl (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs תַּחְמָס noun [masculine] name of male ostrich, according to Bo ii.830 Thes (Thes derives from violence of this bird, compare Arabic  violence, also ostrich; other conjectures are: owl ᵐ5 ᵑ9; swallow, Saad: see also Kn in Di) — mentioned as unclean Leviticus 11:16 (P) Deuteronomy 14:15. Strong's disease, grievous, that are sickness From chamac; a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perhaps an owl -- night hawk. see HEBREW chamac |
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