Lexical Summary tinshemeth: (an animal) perhaps owl, chameleon Original Word: תַּנְשֶׁמֶתTransliteration: tinshemeth Phonetic Spelling: (tan-sheh'-meth) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: (an animal) perhaps owl, chameleon Meaning: a hard breather, two unclean creatures, a lizard and a, bird, the tree-toad and the water-hen Strong's Concordance mole, swan From nasham; 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. see HEBREW nasham Brown-Driver-Briggs H8580. tinshemeth תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת noun feminine an animal; — ׳ת Leviticus 11:18, תִּנְשָּׁ֑מֶת 11:30; Deuteronomy 14:16: — 1 unclean bird, the ibis, water-hen, ᵐ5. πορφυρίων, (accusative TristrNHB 249); or species of owl (Di Bu SS); pelican (Ges): Leviticus 11:18 = Deuteronomy 14:16. 2 unclean שֶׁרֶץ Leviticus 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; compare LagBN 130 f.). |
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