Quick Definition
chameleon
Strong's Definition
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
Derivation: from H5395 (נָשַׁם);
KJV Usage: mole, swan.
TWOT Reference: 1433b
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) an unclean animal of some kind
1a) an unclean bird
1a1) perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl
1b) an unclean lizard
1b1) perhaps the chameleon
1c) perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
1) an unclean animal of some kind
1a) an unclean bird
1a1) perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl
1b) an unclean lizard
1b1) perhaps the chameleon
1c) perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
תַּנְשֶׁמֶת
tanshemeth
BDB Definition:
1) an unclean animal of some kind
1a) an unclean bird
1a1) perhaps the ibis, water-hen, species of owl, barn owl
1b) an unclean lizard
1b1) perhaps the chameleon
1c) perhaps an extinct lizard or bird, exact meaning unknown
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5395
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1433b
Total KJV Occurrences: 3