שָׁלָךְ
cormorant
‘cormorant’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7994 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 1 verse
Deuteronomy 1 verse
About this entry
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שלך (shâlâk) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “cormorant.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Leviticus dominates its distribution — 1 of 2 verses. It first appears in Leviticus 11:17. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7994 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 1 verse 50%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 50%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cormorant 2×
- American Standard Version: Cormorant 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cormorant 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cormorant 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7994 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7994 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7994 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7994 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- bird of prey
- probably the cormorant
Word origin
שָׁלָךְ n.[m.] bird of prey, prob. cormorant
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שלך (shâlak) (H7993) — to throw.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שָׁלַךְ
- , Hif. הִשְׁלִיךְ (b. h.) to cast off, throw down. Erub. 22ᵃ; Yalk. Deut. 846 להַשְׁלִיכוֹ, v. מַשּׂוֹא. Tanḥ. Sh’mini 11 הבחורים … ומַשְׁלִיכִין חומר וכ׳ young men and boys struck him (the drunken man) and cast mud in his face. Midr. Prov. ch. I נַשְׁלִיךְ אותו לבור let us cast him into a pit. Ib. נטל חכה והִשְׁלִיכָהּ לים he took a hook and threw it into the sea. Lam. R. to II, 1 הִשְׁלִיכוֹ לארץ he cast him off (his shoulder and) to the ground; a. fr.
- to be thrown. Tanḥ. Vayesh. 2 כיון שה׳ לבור וכ׳ when he was thrown into the pit, his face changed &c. Tanḥ. Noah 10 ברשותו הוּשְׁלַכְנוּ וכ׳ by his order we have been thrown (into the furnace) &c.; a. e.—Part. מוּשְׁלָךְ; f. מוּשְׁלֶכֶת &c. Gen. R. s. 8; Yalk. ib. 13, v. בלורין. Sifré Deut. 43 נבלת … שהיתה מוש׳ וכ׳ the corpse of J.… which lay exposed to heat in day-time and to cold &c. Midr. Prov. l. c. טורח … מוש׳ עליו the care for the household was thrown upon him (Reuben).
- same. Ex. R. s. 20 ולמה … נִשְׁלַכְתִּי לתוכה וכ׳ why did not Moses strike it (the Nile)? He said, I have been thrown into it, and it did not harm me &c.; a. e.
שָׁלָךְ
- (b. h.) name of a bird of prey, cormorant. Ḥull. 63ᵃ, v. שָׁלָה I.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H7994 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/שָּׁלָ֖ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:17 | 1 |
| הַ/שָּׁלָֽךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:17 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7994, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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