# H8580 תַּנְשֶׁמֶת

תַּנְשֶׁמֶת (tanshemeth), Strong’s H8580: properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility),… KJV…

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*tanshemeth* — properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility),…

KJV: mole, swan.

Derived from [נָשַׁם nâsham](https://besorah.bible/word/H5395) (to blow away, i.e. destroy)

Occurs 3 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶת n.f. an animal
- 1 unclean bird, the ibis, water-hen
- 2 unclean, lizard, or chameleon

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 11:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=18) — the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey,
- [Leviticus 11:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=30) — the gecko, and the monitor lizard, the wall lizard, the skink, and the chameleon.
- [Deuteronomy 14:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/14?v=16) — the little owl, the great owl, the horned owl,