Strong’s H7958 · Hebrew
שְׂלָו
sᵉlâv · sel-awv'
Origin or שְׂלָיו; by orthographical variation from שָׁלָה (H7951) through the idea of sluggishness;
Meaning the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight)
In the King James Version quails.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 16:13And 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 11:31And 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 11:32And 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 105:40The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.