Gull
שַׁ֫חַףStrong’s H7828shachaph (sha-chaph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shachaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “gull”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,”
Meaning
- A ceremonially unclean birdcuckow, gull, seagull, sea-mew · maybe an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
How it's translated
- the gull 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁ֫חַף shachaph · gull
1) a ceremonially unclean bird 1a) cuckow, gull, seagull, sea-mew 1b) maybe an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gull” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GULL, verb transitive
To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud.
All definitions and other forms of “gull”
GULL, noun
A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud.
- One easily cheated.
GULL, noun
A marine fowl of the genus Larus, and order of ansers. There are several species.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.