H7958 שְׂלָו

Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 4 KJV occurrences

שְׂלָו

sᵉlâv · sel-awv'

Definition

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

KJV Renderings

quails.

Derivation / Etymology

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

KJV Verses (4)

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 11:31¶ 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 11:32And 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.