Strong's Hebrew #3244 - יַנְשׁוּף yanshuph or yanshoph ((a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance great owl Or yanshowph {yan-shofe'}; apparently from nashaph; an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant (compare nesheph))) -- (great) owl.s see HEBREW nashaph see HEBREW nesheph Englishman's Concordance 1) great owl, eared owl 1a) an unclean animal Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: apparently from H5398 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1434b Brown-Driver-Briggs יַנְשׁוּף and (Isaiah 34:11) יַנְשׁוֺף noun [masculine] a bird (with harsh, strident note ? BoHeroz, ii. 284; ed. Rosenm. iii. 29, TristrNHB 192 think of נֶשֶׁף — i.e. a twilight bird; on formative compare LagBN 127 BaNB 231); — unclean Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16; inhabiting deserts Isaiah 34:11. Probably a kind of owl Bol.c., 'Great Owl,' Egyptian Eagle-owl (bubo ascalaphus) Tristrl.c. compare ᵑ6 ᵑ7 Di Dr - WhiteHpt (Leviticus), > ᵐ5. ᵑ9 Leviticus, Isaiah ibis. Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 3244. יַנְשׁוֹף (yanshuph or yanshoph) — 3 OccurrencesLeviticus 11:17 Deuteronomy 14:16 Isaiah 34:11 |