Cuckoo
kook'-oo, kuk'-oo (shachaph; laros; Latin Cuculus canorus):
The Hebrew root from which the word shachaph is derived
means "to be lean" and "slender," and in older versions of
the Bible was translated cuckow (cuckoo). It was mentioned
twice in the Bible (Lev 11:16, and practically the same in
Dt 14:15 the King James Version "cuckoo"), in t...
Read More
-(A bird)
-Forbidden as food
Le 11:16; De 14:15...
Read More
Le 11:16; De 14:15 the name of some of the larger petrels
which abound in the east of the Mediterranean....
Read More
(Heb. shahaph), from a root meaning "to be lean; slender."
This
bird is mentioned only in Lev. 11:16 and Deut. 14:15
(R.V.,
"seamew"). Some have interpreted the Hebrew word by
"petrel" or
"shearwater" (Puffinus cinereus), which is found on
the coast of
Syria; others think it denotes the "sea-gull" or
"seamew." The
common cuckoo (Cuculus c...
Read More
shachaph; Leviticus 11:16; Deuteronomy 14:15; unclean. Rather
the Greek cepphus of Aristotle, a large petrel, as the
Puffinus cinereus. From a root "to be slender", "light of
body" like a gull, whose body is small compared with its
apparent size and outspread wings; it skims the waves, seeking
its food in the agitated water. Andouini's gull, a...
Read More
Cuckoo, according to some, would be the bird called in Hebrew shâhâph (Leviticus 11:16; Deuteronomy 14:15), and there reckoned among the unclean birds. Two species, the cuculus canorus, and the oxylophus glandarius live in the Holy Land; however there is little probability that the cuckoo is intended in the mentioned passages, where we should perha...
Read More
