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(axe-bill). A voracious water-bird, large and strong-billed. The female is supplied with a pouch for supplying itself and young with water and food. Symbol of desolation. Original sometimes translated “cormorant” (
Lev. 11:18
18
And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle, (Leviticus 11:18)
;
Deut. 14:17
17
And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant, (Deuteronomy 14:17)
;
Psa. 102:6
6
I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. (Psalm 102:6)
;
Isa. 34:11
11
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness. (Isaiah 34:11)
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