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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7994

שָׁלָךְ

shalakshaw-lawk'

cormorant

2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâlâk

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7994is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 2
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7994

bird of prey, usually thought to be the pelican (from casting itself into the sea)

The King James renders it: cormorant.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

shalak is rendered "cormorant". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • One of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:17the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
  • The Greek text spells it two different ways.

The first use

the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

Leviticus 11:17הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

One of the word's two uses is in Leviticus.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the cormorant2

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שָׁלַחshalachto send: departUses845
שָׁלוֹשׁshaloshthreeUses432
שָׁלוֹםshalompeaceUses236
שָׁלַךְshalakto throwUses125
שָׁלַםshalamto completeUses116
שָׁלָלshalalspoilUses73
שָׁלֵםshalemcompleteUses28
שָׁלַףshalaphto drawUses25
שָׁלִישׁshalishthirdUses20
שָׁלַלshalalto takeUses16
שָׁלַשׁshalashto do threeUses9
שָׁלֵוshalevat easeUses8

and 9 more on the stem.

All 2, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

2 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְ1
  • הַשָּׁלָֽךְ׃1

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa

Leviticus

one use
  • the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,

    Leviticus 11:17

    • הַשָּׁלָ֖ךְhashalakhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cormorant

Deuteronomy

one use
  • the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant,

    Deuteronomy 14:17

    • הַשָּׁלָֽךְ׃hashalakhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cormorant

The letters

Gematria 350· 830 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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