Hebrew word · H7828

שַׁ֫חַף

hashachaf

gull

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

1) a ceremonially unclean bird

1a) cuckow, gull, seagull, sea-mew

1b) maybe an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Leviticus · 1
  1. Leviticus 11:16 הַשָּׁ֑חַף the gull

    the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

Deuteronomy · 1
  1. Deuteronomy 14:15 הַשָּׁ֑חַף the gull

    the ostrich, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk,

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