תַּנְשֶׁמֶתtanshemeth/tan-sheh'-meth/
HebrewH85803 occurrences (KJV)
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
KJV renders it: mole, swan.
Where it appears
- Lev 11:18the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
- Lev 11:30the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
- Deut 14:16the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.