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# שַׁחַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7828

**sea-mew** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

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

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

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

**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.

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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: gull (2).

## In the verses

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

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;

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

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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7828.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7828/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).