H8580 · תַּנְשֶׁמֶת
tanshemeth · tan-sheh'-meth · swan, mole
H8580 (tanshemeth, pronounced tan-sheh'-meth) is the Hebrew word תַּנְשֶׁמֶת in Strong’s dictionary: 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. It appears 3 times in 3 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- תַּנְשֶׁמֶת (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- tanshemeth
- Pronunciation
- tan-sheh'-meth
- Derivation
- from H5395 (נָשַׁם);
- Definition
- 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
- Rendered in the KJV
- mole, swan.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
3 occurrences in 3 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “the white owl” ×2
- “and the chameleon” ×1
By book
Leviticus 2 · Deuteronomy 1
Verses
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H8580.