תִּנְשֶׁמֶת (tinšemet) is
a Hebrew noun
meaning hard breather. It appears
3 times
in 2 books of the Hebrew Bible
(Strong's H8580).
Also rendered
chameleon
Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1433b)
Range of meaning (TWOT 1433b)ibis, water-hen; lizard, chameleon; hard breather; bird, tree-toad; mole, swan
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's
תִּנְשֶׁ֫מֶתnoun, feminine
1.unclean bird, the ibis, water-hen
2.unclean, lizard, or chameleon
Strong's H8580תַּנְשֶׁמֶת: properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and a bird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen KJV:mole, swan.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 1433: נָשַׁםnāšam — pant; blow, destroy