# תַּחְמָס (tachmas)

Israeli respelling: tach-mas. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8464. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perhaps an owl

King James renderings: night hawk.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tachmas-h8464

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 11:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/16) — And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
- [Deuteronomy 14:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/15) — And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,