Strong’s H3244 · Hebrew
יַנְשׁוּף
yanshûwph · yan-shoof'
Origin or יַנְשׁוֹף; apparently from נָשַׁף (H5398); (compare נֶשֶׁף (H5399))
Meaning an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the nightheron is meant))
In the King James Version (great) owl.s
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Leviticus 11:17And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
- Deuteronomy 14:16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
- Isaiah 34:11But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.