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Strong's #3244: yanshuwph (pronounced yan-shoof')

or yanshowph {yan-shofe'}; apparently from 5398; an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant (compare 5399))):--(great) owl.s




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ּׁ

yanshûph / yanshôph

1) great owl, eared owl

1a) an unclean animal

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: apparently from H5398



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Leviticus 11:17: "And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,"
Deuteronomy 14:16: "The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,"
Isaiah 34:11: "But the cormorant and the bittern it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon"









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