H7958: שְׂלָו
sᵉlâv · pronounced sel-awv' · “quail”
Definition
the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight)
KJV translates it as: quails.
Word origin: or שְׂלָיו; by orthographical variation from H7951 (שָׁלָה) through the idea of sluggishness;
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7958 is translated
- quail ×3
- quails ×1
Bible verses with H7958 (sᵉlâv)
Sᵉlâv appears in 4 verses.
- Exodus 16:13
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
- Numbers 11:31
And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
- Numbers 11:32
And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Psalms 105:40
The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.