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# שְׂלָו

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7958

**quail** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

quail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7958/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂלָו: n.f. quail [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7958/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Ex 16:13 quail (prob. foreign word; Arabic سَلْوَى, Syriac ܣܰܠܘܰܝ, Sam. ࠔࠋࠅࠉ );—quail, coturnix communis vel vulgaris (TristrNHB 229 ff. FFP 124 PostHast.DB. quail, Di Ex 16:13):—abs. coll. Nu 11:32 (J); Ex 16:13 (P), ψ 105:40 (in all Qr שְׂלָיו); pl. שַׂלְוִים Nu 11:31 (J; as if from sg. שַׂלְוֶה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: quail (3); quails (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.40/#tree)

שָׁאַ֣ל וַיָּבֵ֣א שְׂלָ֑ו וְלֶ֥חֶם שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם יַשְׂבִּיעֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.asked and he.brought quail and bread of.heavens he satisfied.them

*JPS 1917:* They asked, and He brought quails, and gave them in plenty the bread of heaven.

[Exodus 16:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.13/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י בָעֶ֔רֶב וַתַּ֣עַל הַשְּׂלָ֔ו וַתְּכַ֖ס אֶת־הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה וּבַבֹּ֗קֶר הָֽיְתָה֙ שִׁכְבַ֣ת הַטַּ֔ל סָבִ֖יב לַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in the evening and it.came.up the quail and it.covered (et) the camp and in the morning it.was the.layer of the.dew around (to) the camp

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew round about the camp.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7958.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7958/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).