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# יַנְשׁוּף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3244

**strident** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

strident [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3244/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Is 34:11) יַנְשׁוֹף n.\[m.\] a bird (with harsh, strident note? BoHieroz. ii. 284; ed. Rosenm. iii. 29, TristrNHB 192 think of נֶשֶׁף—i.e. a twilight bird; on format. cf. LagBN 127 BaNB 231);—unclean Lv 11:17 Dt 14:16; inhabiting deserts Is 34:11. Prob. a kind of owl Bö l.c., ‘Great Owl,’ Egyptian Eagle-owl Tristrl.c. cf. 𝔖 𝔗 Di Dr-WhiteHpt. (Lv), \> 𝔊 𝔙 Lv Is ibis.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: owl (2); great owl (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 14:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.16/#tree)

אֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.little owl and (et) the.great owl and the.barn owl

*JPS 1917:* the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl;

[Leviticus 11:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.17/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשֽׁוּף׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.little owl and (et) the cormorant and (et) the.great owl

*JPS 1917:* and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3244.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3244/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).