תַּחְמָסtachmâç/takh-mawce'/
HebrewH84642 occurrences (KJV)
a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perhaps an owl
KJV renders it: night hawk.
Where it appears
- Lev 11:16the horned owl, the screech owl, and the gull, any kind of hawk,
- Deut 14:15the ostrich, the owl, the seagull, the hawk after its kind,
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.