Strong's #8580: tanshemeth (pronounced tan-sheh'-meth)

from 5395; properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen:--mole, swan.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tanshemeth

1) an unclean animal of some kind

1a) an unclean bird

1a1) perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl

1b) an unclean lizard

1b1) perhaps the chameleon

1c) perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H5395

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

Leviticus 11:18: " And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier-eagle,"
Leviticus 11:30: "and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole."
Deuteronomy 14:16: "The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,"