יַנְשׁוּףyanshûwph
an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the nightheron is meant ))
Pronunciation: yan-shoof' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3244
Meanings
a bird, unclean, Probably a kind of owl (Isaiah 34:11; Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 11:17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
- Deuteronomy 14:16 the little owl, the great owl, the barn owl,
- Isaiah 34:11 It will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl, the great owl and the raven. For God will measure that land carefully; he will measure it for chaos and destruction.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).