Lexicon selav: quail Original Word: שְׂלָוPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: selav Phonetic Spelling: (sel-awv') Short Definition: quail NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably of foreign origin Definitionquail NASB Translationquail (3), quails (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs שְׂלָו noun feminineExodus 16:13 quail (probably foreign word; Arabic  , Syriac  , Samaritan  ); — quail, coturnix communis or vulguris (Tristr NHB 229 ff. FFP 124 Post Hast. DB. QUAIL, Di Exodus 16:13): — absolute collective Numbers 11:32 (J), Exodus 16:13 (P), Psalm 105:40 (in all Qr שְׂלָיו); plural שַׂלְוִים Numbers 11:31 (J; as if from singular שַׂלְוֶה). שַׂלְמָא, I. שַׂלְמָה see שַׂלְמוֺן. below II. שַׂלְמָה = שִׂמְלָה see below שׂמל.
Strong's quails Or slayv {sel-awv'}; by orthographical variation from shalah through the idea of sluggishness; the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight) -- quails. |
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