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Strong's #7994 - שָׁלָךְ
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
1) bird of prey
1a) probably the cormorant
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2844) kls (סהלכ ShLK) AC: Throw CO: ? AB: ?: [from: lx- sending]
V) kls (סהלכ ShLK) - Throw: To cast out, down or away. KJV (125): (vf: Hiphil, Hophal) cast, hurl - Strongs: H7993 (שָׁלַךְ)
Nm) kls (סהלכ ShLK) - Shelak: An unknown bird. KJV (2): cormorant - Strongs: H7994 (שָׁלָךְ)
Nf2) tkls (סהלכת ShLKT) - Throwing: KJV (1): cast - Strongs: H7995 (שַׁלֶּכֶת)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
שָׁלָךְ m. Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:17, an aquatic bird, LXX. καταράκτης, al. καταῤῥάκτης, i.e. a species of pelican, which casts itself down from the highest rocks into the water (Pelecanus Bassanus, Linn.). Vulg. mergulus; Syr. and Ch. fish-catcher. Compare Bochart, Hieroz. part ii. lib. ii. cap. xxi.; Oedmann, Verm. Sammlungen aus der Naturkunde, iii. page 68: and
