King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3244
Transliteration: yanshuph or yanshoph
Phonetic Spelling: (yan-shoof')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl
Meaning: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl
Word Summary
yanshuph or yanshoph: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl
Original Word: יַנְשׁוּףTransliteration: yanshuph or yanshoph
Phonetic Spelling: (yan-shoof')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl
Meaning: (a ceremonially unclean bird) perhaps an owl
Strong's 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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3244. yanshuph
or yanshoph 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 ᵑ7 ᵑ6 Di Dr - WhiteHpt (Leviticus), > ᵐ5. ᵑ9 Leviticus, Isaiah ibis.