# תַּנְשֶׁמֶת (tanshemet)

Israeli respelling: tan-she-met. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8580. 3 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen

King James renderings: mole, swan.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tanshemet-h8580

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/18) — And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
- [Leviticus 11:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/30) — And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
- [Deuteronomy 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/16) — The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,