Ostrich
תַּחְמָסStrong’s H8464tachmas (tach-mas)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tachmas is the Hebrew word usually translated “screech owl”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,”
Meaning
- A ceremonially unclean birda name of the male ostrich · (CLBL) probably the great owl · perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- the screech owl 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
תַּחְמָס tachmas · ostrich
1) a ceremonially unclean bird 1a) a name of the male ostrich 1b) (CLBL) probably the great owl 1c) perhaps an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ostrich” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OS'TRICH, noun
[Latin struthio-camelus; Gr. a sparrow, and an ostrich The meaning of the name is not obvious. Eng. strut, Latin struthio, Gr., Latin avis. The primary sense of struz, struthio, etc. is to reach, stretch, extend or erect; but whether this name was given to the fowl from its stately walk or appearance, or from some part of its plumage, let the reader judge.]
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.