Lexicon shachaph: a sea mew, gull Original Word: שָׁ֫חַףPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: shachaph Phonetic Spelling: (shakh'-af) Short Definition: gull NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiona sea mew, gull NASB Translationsea gull (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ שַׁ֫חַף] noun [masculine] probably sea-mew, gull (compare ᵐ5 ᵑ9) (from attenuated body, Thes); so Post Hast. DB CUCKOW Tristr NHB 210 ff; sterna fluviatilis, or tern Id FFP 135 M'Lean-Shipley Ency. Bib. ID.; — הַשָּׁ֑חַף Deuteronomy 14:15 = Leviticus 11:16 (P), in list of unclean birds. Strong's cuckoo From an unused root meaning to peel, i.e. Emaciate; the gull (as thin) -- cuckoo. |
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