Lexical Summary yanshuph or yanshoph: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl Original Word: יַנְשׁוּףTransliteration: yanshuph or yanshoph Phonetic Spelling: (yan-shoof') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl Meaning: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl Strong's Concordance 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 Brown-Driver-Briggs H3244. yanshuph or yanshoph יַנְשׁוּף and (Isaiah 34:11) יַנְשׁוֺף noun [masculine] a bird (with harsh, strident note ? BoHeroz, ii. 284; ed. Rosenm. iii. 29, TristrNHB 192 think of נֶשֶׁף — i.e. a twilight bird; on formative compare LagBN 127 BaNB 231); — unclean Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16; inhabiting deserts Isaiah 34:11. Probably a kind of owl Bol.c., 'Great Owl,' Egyptian Eagle-owl (bubo ascalaphus) Tristrl.c. compare ᵑ7 ᵑ6 Di Dr - WhiteHpt (Leviticus), > ᵐ5. ᵑ9 Leviticus, Isaiah ibis. |
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