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title: תִּנְשֶׁמֶת — hard breather · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תִּנְשֶׁמֶת (8580), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: hard breather. BDB 1906: n.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תִּנְשֶׁמֶת

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«תִּנְשֶׁמֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hard breather** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 8580 · **BDB:** תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת

### Glosses

chameleon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hard breather [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8580/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8580/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. an animal;—ת׳ Lv 11:18, תִּנְשָּׁ֑מֶת Lv 11:30 Dt 14:16:— unclean bird, the ibis, water-hen, 𝔊 πορφυρίων, (acc. TristrNHB 249); or species of owl (Di Bu SS); pelican (Ges): Lv 11:18 = Dt 14:16. unclean שֶׁרֶץ Lv 11:30, lizard (Saad TristrNHB 120), or chameleon (BoHieroz. i. 1078 ff.; ed. Rosenm. ii. 503 ff.), so most; (deriving name from alleged living on air, PlinNH viii. 51; but this not applicable to 1; cf. LagBN 130 f.).

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תִּנְשֶׁמֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8580/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.30/)

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וְהָאֲנָקָ֥ה וְהַכֹּ֖חַ וְהַלְּטָאָ֑ה וְהַחֹ֖מֶט וְהַתִּנְשָֽׁמֶת׃

*Word for word:* and the gecko and the.monitor lizard and the.wall lizard and the skink and the chameleon

*JPS 1917:* and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the chameleon.

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