Strong's Definition
or yanshowph {yan-shofe'}; apparently from 5398; an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant (compare 5399)))
KJV Usage: (great) owl.s
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
יַנְשׁוּף (yan.shuph) — owl. 1) great owl, eared owl 1a) an unclean animal
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Birds
tawny owl exact meaning unknown; possibly: type of owl with a mottled gray-brown color; its eyes are outlined with pale circles, so that it looks as though it is wearing spectacles; it prefers wooded areas or orchards and roosts close to the trunk of a tree; ◄ Strix aluco; ► unclean and therefore not to be eaten
1 LEV 11:17 RSV "ibis", NIV NJPS NRSV "great owl" | NJB "barn owl", REB "screech-owl" 2 DEU 14:16 RSV NIV NJPS NRSV "great owl" | NJB "barn owl" | REB "screech-owl" 3 ISA 34:11 RSV NRSV NJB "owl" | NIV NJPS "great owl" | REB "screech-owl"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
יַנְשׁוּף and יַנְשׁוֹף n.[m.] a bird (with harsh, strident note?) base