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title: שָׁלָךְ — cormorant · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שָׁלָךְ (7994), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: cormorant. BDB 1906: cormorant. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שָׁלָךְ

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«שָׁלָךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cormorant** — 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:** 7994 · **BDB:** שָׁלָךְ

### Glosses

cormorant (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cormorant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7994/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

cormorant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7994/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bird of prey, prob. cormorant (as hurling itself from above;—cf. Thes 1419 Di Lv TristrNHB 252 McLean-ShipleyEncy. Bib. cormorant);—Dt 14:17; Lv 11:17 (P).

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שָׁלָךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7994/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.17/)

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וְאֶת־הַכּ֥וֹס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ וְאֶת־הַיַּנְשֽׁוּף׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.little owl and (et) the cormorant and (et) the.great owl

*JPS 1917:* and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl;

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[Deuteronomy 14:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.17/)

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וְהַקָּאָ֥ת וְאֶֽת־הָרָחָ֖מָה וְאֶת־הַשָּׁלָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and the.desert owl and (et) the Egyptian vulture and (et) the cormorant

*JPS 1917:* and the pelican, and the carrion-vulture, and the cormorant;

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