Lexicon / H8464
תַּחְמָס
tach.mas
  • ostrich
  • male ostrich

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: 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

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: male ostrich

Root √חמס: חָמַס vb treat violently wrong Qal treat violently wrong of physical wrong of ethical wrong both physical and ethical , Niph suffer violence . thy heels .

תַּחְמָס n.[m.] male ostrich name of