STRONGS NUMBER H7994


Word Summary
shalak: (bird of prey) probably cormorant
Original Word: שָׁלָךְ
Transliteration: shalak
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-lawk')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: (bird of prey) probably cormorant
Meaning: (bird of prey) probably cormorant
Strong's Concordance
cormorant

From shalak; bird of prey, usually thought to be the pelican (from casting itself into the sea) -- cormorant.

see HEBREW shalak

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7994. shalak

שָׁלָךְnoun [masculine] bird of prey, probably cormorant (as hurling itself from above; — compare Thes1419 DiLv TristrNHB 252 McLean-ShipleyEncy.Bib.CORMORANT); — Deuteronomy 14:17; Leviticus 11:17; (P).