Strong's #7828: shachaph (pronounced shakh'-af)

from an unused root meaning to peel, i.e. emaciate; the gull (as thin):--cuckoo.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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shachaph

1) a ceremonially unclean bird

1a) cuckow, gull, seagull, sea-mew

1b) maybe an extinct bird, exact meaning unknown

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to peel, i.e. emaciate

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Leviticus 11:16: "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,"
Deuteronomy 14:15: "And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk after his kind,"