Strong’s H8464 · Hebrew
תַּחְמָס
tachmâç · takh-mawce'
Origin from חָמַס (H2554);
Meaning a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perhaps an owl
In the King James Version night hawk.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Leviticus 11:16And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- Deuteronomy 14:15And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
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.