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# תִּנְשֶׁמֶת

Biblical Hebrew

**hard breather** — used 2 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

hard breather [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5de_5b6_5ea/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5de_5b6_5ea/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. an animal;—ת׳ Lv 11:18, תִּנְשָּׁ֑מֶת Lv 11:30 Dt 14:16:— unclean bird, the ibis, water-hen, 𝔊 πορφυρίων, (acc. TristrNHB 249); or species of owl (Di Bu SS); pelican (Ges): Lv 11:18 = Dt 14:16. unclean שֶׁרֶץ Lv 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; cf. LagBN 130 f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## 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 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.18/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַתִּנְשֶׁ֥מֶת וְאֶת־הַקָּאָ֖ת וְאֶת־הָרָחָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.barn owl and (et) the.desert owl and (et) the.Egyptian vulture

*JPS 1917:* and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5de_5b6_5ea.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b4_5bc_5e0_5b0_5e9_5b6_5c1_5de_5b6_5ea/): 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).