H3244 Hebrew

יַנְשׁוּף

yanshûwph (yan-shoof')
an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the nightheron is meant ))

KJV Translations of H3244

(great) owl.s

Word Origin & Derivation

or יַנְשׁוֹף; apparently from H5398 (נָשַׁף); (compare H5399 (נֶשֶׁף))

H5398 נָשַׁף (nâshaph)

to breeze, i.e. blow up fresh (as the wind)

H5399 נֶשֶׁף (nesheph)

properly, a breeze, i.e. (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)

H3244 in the King James Bible

3 verses
Deuteronomy 14:16 הַיַּנְשׁ֖וּף

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

Isaiah 34:11 וְיַנְשׁ֥וֹף

But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.

Leviticus 11:17 הַיַּנְשֽׁוּף׃

And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,