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Leviticus 11

Lev. 11:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the little owl
kowc (Hebrew #3563)
a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
KJV usage: cup, (small) owl. Compare 3599.
Pronounce: koce
Origin: from an unused root meaning to hold together
, and the cormorant
shalak (Hebrew #7994)
bird of prey, usually thought to be the pelican (from casting itself into the sea)
KJV usage: cormorant.
Pronounce: shaw-lawk'
Origin: from 7993
, and the great owl
yanshuwph (Hebrew #3244)
apparently from 5398; an unclean (acquatic) bird; probably the heron (perhaps from its blowing cry, or because the night-heron is meant (compare 5399)))
KJV usage: (great) owl.s
Pronounce: yan-shoof'
Origin: or yanshowph {yan-shofe'}
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Cormorant,
Owl

Cross References

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Lev. 11:17• 17and the owl, and the gannet, and the ibis, (Lev. 11:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and the owl, and the gannet, and the ibis,