Owl
יַנְשׁוּףStrong’s H3244yanshuph (yan-shuph)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yanshuph is the Hebrew word usually translated “great owl”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,”
Meaning
- Great owl, eared owlan unclean animal
How it's translated
- the great owl 2
- and great owl 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
יַנְשׁוּף yanshuph · owl
1) great owl, eared owl 1a) an unclean animal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “owl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OWL, noun
[Latin ulula, ululo.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.