שְׂלָו
selav · quail
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7958 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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selav (שְׂלָו) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “quail”.
Small birds that travel in large flocks.
How to say it
se·lav
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A small bird that migrates in flocks, and that God sent to Israel as meat in the wilderness.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- quail ×2
- quails ×2
Where it appears
- Exodus 16:13
In the evening quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- Numbers 11:31
And a wind set out from YHWH and brought across quails from the sea and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and about a day’s journey on that side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the ground.
- Numbers 11:32
And the people rose up all that day and all the night and all the next day, and gathered the quails; the one who gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them out for themselves around the camp.
- Psalms 105:40
They asked, and he brought quail, and with bread of heaven he satisfied them.