Strong's H8580

תַּנְשֶׁמֶת

Language:: Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)

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

Derivation

from H5395 (נָשַׁם);

KJV Translation

In the King James Version, תַּנְשֶׁמֶת is translated as: mole, swan..

About Strong's Concordance

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.