Lexical Summary selav: quail Original Word: שְׂלָוTransliteration: selav Phonetic Spelling: (sel-awv') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: quail Meaning: the quail Strong's Concordance 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. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7958. selav שְׂלָו noun feminineExodus 16:13 quail (probably foreign word; Arabic , Syriac , Samaritan ); — quail, coturnix communis or vulguris (TristrNHB 229 ff. FFP 124 PostHast. DB. QUAIL, Di16:13): — 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. |
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