HebrewH8580Noun (Feminine)
תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת
tan.she.met
“chameleon”
3Occurrences
H8580Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen
from H5395 (נָשַׁם);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
- an unclean animal of some kind 1a) an unclean bird 1a1) perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl 1b) an unclean lizard 1b1) perhaps the chameleon 1c) perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Feminine)
Morphology Code
H:N-F
Full Description
H:N-F
Occurrences
תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת appears 3 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Leviticus
2
Deuteronomy
1
Key Passages
Deuteronomy 14:16BSB
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
Leviticus 11:18BSB
the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
Leviticus 11:30BSB
the gecko, the monitor lizard, the common lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
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