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title: שַׁחַף — sea-mew · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שַׁחַף (7828), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: sea-mew. BDB 1906: sea-mew, gull. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שַׁחַף

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«שַׁחַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sea-mew** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 7828 · **BDB:** שַׁ֫חַף

### Glosses

gull (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sea-mew [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7828/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sea-mew, gull [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7828/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] prob. sea-mew, gull (cf. 𝔊 𝔙) (from attenuated body, Thes); so Post Hast. DB Cuckow TristrNHB 210 ff.; sterna fluviatilis, or tern Id FFP 135 M’Lean-Shipley Ency. Bib. Id.;—הַשָּׁ֑חַף Dt 14:15 = Lv 11:16 (P), in list of unclean birds.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שַׁחַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7828/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.16/)

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וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.daughter of the.ostrich and (et) the.screech owl and (et) the gull and (et) the falcon to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

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[Deuteronomy 14:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.15/)

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וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.daughter of the.ostrich and (et) the.screech owl and (et) the gull and (et) the falcon to kind its

*JPS 1917:* and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kinds;

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