Limitless Word
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.