Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7958
שְׂלָו
selavsel-awv'
quail
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sᵉlâv
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7958is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7958
the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight)
The King James renders it: quails.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
selav is rendered "quail". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:13That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
Exodus 16:13הַשְּׂלָ֔ו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the quail2
- quail1
- quails1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַשְּׂלָ֔ו2
- שְׂלָ֑ו1
- שַׂלְוִים֮1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
Exodus
one use
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- הַשְּׂלָ֔וhaselavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the quail
Numbers
two uses
Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.
- שַׂלְוִים֮salvimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: quails
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
- הַשְּׂלָ֔וhaselavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the quail
Psalms
one use
They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
- שְׂלָ֑וselavnoun · feminine singulartagged: quail
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.