Quail
שְׂלָוStrong’s H7958selav (se-lav)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Selav is the Hebrew word usually translated “quail” and “quails”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Quail
How it's translated
- the quail 2
- quails 1
- quail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂלָו selav · quail
quail
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quail” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUAIL, verb intransitive
[Quail, in English, signifies to sink or languish, to curdle, and to crush or quell.]
- To sink into dejection; to languish; to fail in spirits. [Little used.]
- To fade; to wither. obsolete
All definitions and other forms of “quail”
QUAIL, verb intransitive
QUAIL, verb transitive
To crush; to depress; to sink; to subdue. [This orthography is obsolete. The word is now written quell.]
QUAIL, noun
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.