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title: תַּחְמָס — male ostrich · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תַּחְמָס (8464), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: male ostrich. BDB 1906: male ostrich. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תַּחְמָס

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«תַּחְמָס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **male ostrich** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 8464 · **BDB:** תַּחְמָס

### Glosses

owl (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

male ostrich [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8464/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

male ostrich [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8464/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] name of male ostrich, according to Böii. 830 Thes (Thes der. from violence of this bird, cf. Arabic ظَلِيمٌ violence, also ostrich; other conject. are: owl 𝔊 𝔙; swallow, Saad: v. also Kn in Di)—mentioned as unclean Lv 11:16 (P) Dt 14:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תַּחְמָס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8464/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.16/)

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וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.daughter of the.ostrich and (et) the.screech owl and (et) the gull and (et) the falcon to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

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[Deuteronomy 14:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.15/)

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וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.daughter of the.ostrich and (et) the.screech owl and (et) the gull and (et) the falcon to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

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