Lexical Summary shachaph: a sea mew, gull Original Word: שַׁחַףTransliteration: shachaph Phonetic Spelling: (shakh'-af) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a sea mew, gull Meaning: a sea mew, gull Strong's Concordance cuckoo From an unused root meaning to peel, i.e. Emaciate; the gull (as thin) -- cuckoo. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7828. shachaph [שַׁ֫חַף] noun [masculine] probably sea-mew, gull (compare ᵑ9 ᵐ5) (from attenuated body, Thes); so PostHast. DB CUCKOW TristrNHB 210 ff; sterna fluviatilis, or tern IdFFP 135 M'Lean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. ID.; — הַשָּׁ֑חַף Deuteronomy 14:15 = Leviticus 11:16 (P), in list of unclean birds. |
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