Cormorant
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Cormorant, [N] [E]
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Bibliography InformationSmith, William, Dr. "Entry for 'Cormorant,'". "Smith's Bible Dictionary".. 1901.
the representative in the Authorized Version of the Hebrew words kaath and shalac . As to the former, see PELICAN. Shalac occurs only as the name of an unclean bird in ( Leviticus 11:17 ; 14:17 ) The word has been variously rendered. The etymology points to some plunging bird. The common cormorant (phalacrocorax carbo ), which some writers have identified with the shalac , is unknown in the eastern Mediterranean; another species is found south of the Red Sea, but none on the west coast of Palestine.
[N] indicates this entry was also found in Nave's Topical Bible
[E] indicates this entry was also found in Easton's Bible Dictionary
Bibliography InformationSmith, William, Dr. "Entry for 'Cormorant,'". "Smith's Bible Dictionary".