Strong's H8580 · Hebrew

tanshemeth

tan-sheh'-meth

from 5395; 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

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H8580

H8580 תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת an animal . unclean bird, the ibis , water-hen . unclean, lizard , or chameleon

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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