7828. shachaph

Lexicon

shachaph: To be lean, to be thin, to waste away

Original Word: שַׁחַף
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: shachaph
Pronunciation: shah-khaf'
Phonetic Spelling: (shakh'-af)
KJV: cuckoo
NASB: sea gull
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning to peel, i.e. emaciate]

1. the gull (as thin)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cuckoo

From an unused root meaning to peel, i.e. Emaciate; the gull (as thin) -- cuckoo.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
a sea mew, gull
NASB Translation
sea 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.

Forms and Transliterations

הַשָּׁ֑חַף השחף haš·šā·ḥap̄ hashShachaf haššāḥap̄

Englishman's Concordance

Leviticus 11:16
HEB: הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־ הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־ הַנֵּ֖ץ
NAS: and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk
KJV: and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
INT: and the ostrich and the owl and the sea and the hawk kind

Deuteronomy 14:15
HEB: הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־ הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־ הַנֵּ֖ץ
NAS: the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk
KJV: and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk
INT: and the ostrich the owl the sea and the hawk their kinds

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 7828
2 Occurrences

haš·šā·ḥap̄ — 2 Occ.