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Bible Dictionaries
Cuckoo
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Parasitism in birds: The chick of a Great spotted cuckoo perched alongside its foster parent, a Hooded crow, in Israel
Cuckoo, according to some, would be the bird called in Hebrew שַׁחַף shâhâph - Strongs: H7828 (Leviticus 11:16; Deuteronomy 14:15), and there reckoned among the unclean birds. Two species, Cuculus canorus and Oxylophus glandarius live in the Holy Land; however there is little probability that the cuckoo is intended in the mentioned passages, where we should perhaps see the shearwater and the various species of seagulls.
Verses:
- Leviticus 11:16
- Deuteronomy 14:15
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