Strong’s definition
a species of unclean bird (from its violence), perhaps an owl
KJV gloss list in the source
night hawk.
Source pronunciation notation: takh-mawce'
Derivation recorded by Strong
from H2554 (חָמַס);
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Every indexed source occurrence of H8464 →
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