Biblical Hebrew

- Advertisements -


hebrew #8464 - תַּחְמָס tachmas (male ostrich)


Original Word:תַּחְמָס
Transliteration: tachmas
Definition:male ostrich
Part of Speech:Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:(takh-mawce')
............................................................................................................................

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

disease, grievous, that are sickness

From chamac; a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perhaps an owl -- night hawk.

see HEBREW chamac


Englishman's Concordance

1) a ceremonially unclean bird
1a) a name of the male ostrich
1b) (CLBL) probably the great owl
1c) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2554
Same Word by TWOT Number: 678b

Brown-Driver-Briggs

תַּחְמָסnoun [masculine] name of male ostrich, according to Boii.830 Thes (Thes derives from violence of this bird, compare Arabic violence, also ostrich; other conjectures are: owlᵐ5ᵑ9; swallow, Saad: see also Kn in Di) — mentioned as unclean Leviticus 11:16 (P) Deuteronomy 14:15.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 8464. תַּחְמָס (tachmas) — 2 Occurrences

Leviticus 11:16
HEB:הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־ הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־ הַשָּׁ֑חַף
NAS: and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull
KJV: And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow,
INT: first and the ostrich and the owl and the sea and the hawk

Deuteronomy 14:15
HEB:הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־ הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־ הַשָּׁ֑חַף
NAS: and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull,
KJV: And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow,
INT: first and the ostrich the owl the sea and the hawk

Follow us:



Advertisements