יַנְשׁוּף
yanshuf · owl, ibis (uncertain)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3244 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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yanshuf (יַנְשׁוּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “owl, ibis (uncertain)”.
An unclean bird of uncertain identity: a great owl or an ibis.
How to say it
yan·shuf
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- An unclean bird; which one is uncertain.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Leviticus 11:17
the horned owl, the cormorant, the ibis,
- Deuteronomy 14:16
the great owl, the ibis, the white owl,
- Isaiah 34:11
And the pelican and the hedgehog will possess it, and the ibis and the raven will dwell in it; and he will stretch over it the line of formlessness and the stones of emptiness.