Cormorant
שָׁלָךְStrong’s H7994shalakh (sha-lakh)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “cormorant”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,”
Meaning
- Bird of preyprobably the cormorant
How it's translated
- the cormorant 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
שָׁלָךְ shalakh · cormorant
1) bird of prey 1a) probably the cormorant
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cormorant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORMORANT, noun
[Cormorant is supposed to be corrupted from corvus marinus, sea raven. The Welsh also call the fowl morvran, sea crow.]
- The water raven, a large fowl of the pelican kind; the head and neck are black; the coverts of the wings, the scapulars and the back are of a deep green, edged with black and glossed with blue.
- A glutton.
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.