Cuckoo
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shachaph; Lev_11:16; Deu_14:15; unclean. Rather the Greek cepphus of Aristotle, a large petrel, as the Puffinus cinereus. From a root "to be slender", "light of body" like a gull, whose body is small compared with its apparent size and outspread wings; it skims the waves, seeking its food in the agitated water. Andouini's gull, abounding on the shores of Syria (Tristram), a more likely bird than the storm petrel, which is seldom seen on land.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Cuckoo. Lev_11:16; Lev_14:15. The name of some of the larger petrels which abound in the east of the Mediterranean.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Cuckoo
(שִׁחִ, shach'aph, prob. from its leanness; Sept. and Vulg. sea-gull, A.V. cuckow) occurs only in Lev_11:16; Deu_14:15, among birds of prey not clearly identified, but declared to be unclean. None of the various ancient or modern versions of this word give a bird possessing any affinity with the other species enumerated; and although the cuckoo is a winter and spring bird, distinctly heard, it appears, by Mr. Buckingham, early in April, while crossing the mountains between Damascus and Sidon, at that time covered with snow, it could scarcely deserve to be included in the prohibited list, for the species is everywhere scarce. The identifications proposed by late writers on the subject all equally lack a sufficient foundation. Bochart (Hieroz. vol. 2, c. 18) thinks the sea-gull is meant. Upon the whole, while so much obscurity still remains on the subject, the interpretation of cuckoo may as well remain undisturbed. (See Penny Cyclopoedia, s.v.) The word shachaph was a good imitation of the dissyllabic voice of this bird, as our word cuckoo, variously repeated in all European languages, and yakoob, which the bird is supposed by the Arabs to utter. The latter, indeed, call it tir el-Yakub, or Jacob's bird, on this account (Kitto, Phys. Hist. of Palest. p. 403). The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a bird of considerable size, unfit for food, because habitually feeding on reptiles and large insects. It is spread over the whole of Asia and Africa as well as Europe, migrating northward in spring, and probably not breeding in Palestine, although passing the winter there. The American cuckoo (Erythiophris Americanus), often called cow-bird, is a different species of the family of the Cuculinoe, all the members of which are distinguished by laying their eggs in the pests of other birds, and rearing no young themselves.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Cuckoo. Lev_11:16; Lev_14:15. The name of some of the larger petrels which abound in the east of the Mediterranean.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Cuckoo
(שִׁחִ, shach'aph, prob. from its leanness; Sept. and Vulg. sea-gull, A.V. cuckow) occurs only in Lev_11:16; Deu_14:15, among birds of prey not clearly identified, but declared to be unclean. None of the various ancient or modern versions of this word give a bird possessing any affinity with the other species enumerated; and although the cuckoo is a winter and spring bird, distinctly heard, it appears, by Mr. Buckingham, early in April, while crossing the mountains between Damascus and Sidon, at that time covered with snow, it could scarcely deserve to be included in the prohibited list, for the species is everywhere scarce. The identifications proposed by late writers on the subject all equally lack a sufficient foundation. Bochart (Hieroz. vol. 2, c. 18) thinks the sea-gull is meant. Upon the whole, while so much obscurity still remains on the subject, the interpretation of cuckoo may as well remain undisturbed. (See Penny Cyclopoedia, s.v.) The word shachaph was a good imitation of the dissyllabic voice of this bird, as our word cuckoo, variously repeated in all European languages, and yakoob, which the bird is supposed by the Arabs to utter. The latter, indeed, call it tir el-Yakub, or Jacob's bird, on this account (Kitto, Phys. Hist. of Palest. p. 403). The common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) is a bird of considerable size, unfit for food, because habitually feeding on reptiles and large insects. It is spread over the whole of Asia and Africa as well as Europe, migrating northward in spring, and probably not breeding in Palestine, although passing the winter there. The American cuckoo (Erythiophris Americanus), often called cow-bird, is a different species of the family of the Cuculinoe, all the members of which are distinguished by laying their eggs in the pests of other birds, and rearing no young themselves.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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