HebrewH7994Noun (Masculine)
שָׁלָךְ
sha.lakh
“cormorant”
2Occurrences
H7994Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech
Definition
Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)
bird of prey, usually thought to be the pelican (from casting itself into the sea)
from H7993 (שָׁלַךְ);
Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
- bird of prey 1a) probably the cormorant
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Grammar & Morphology
Part of Speech
Noun (Masculine)
Morphology Code
H:N-M
Full Description
H:N-M
Occurrences
שָׁלָךְ appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Deuteronomy
1
Leviticus
1
Key Passages
Deuteronomy 14:17BSB
the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,
Leviticus 11:17BSB
the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.