H7958 - שְׂלָו (sᵉlâv)

H7958 שְׂלָו (sᵉlâv) sel-awv'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

quail

Strong's Definition

the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight)

Derivation: or שְׂלָיו; by orthographical variation from H7951 (שָׁלָה) through the idea of sluggishness;

KJV Usage: quails.

TWOT Reference: 2265

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) quail

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

quail

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

שְׂלָיו / שְׂלָו śelâv / śelâyv BDB Definition: 1) quail Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: by orthographical variation from H7951 through the idea of sluggishness Same Word by TWOT Number: 2265 Total KJV Occurrences: 4

Bible Occurrences (4)

16:13

11:31 11:32

105:40

Exodus 16:13

That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

Numbers 11:31

Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction......... around the camp.

Numbers 11:32

All that day and night..., and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.