Quail
H7958
Hebrew
UBS
שְׂלָו
sᵉlâvsel-awv'
Noun Feminine
Definition
= small brown bird streaked with white, the smallest of the game birds; looks like a miniature {L:partridge<SDBH:קֹרֵא>}, with a small white patch beneath its beak, a white stripe above its eye, and another around its neck; the males have a black chest stripe above a chestnut-colored breast patch; ◄ Coturnix coturnix; ► clean animal and therefore fit for consumption
Semantic Domains
Birds
Etymology
or שְׂלָיו; by orthographical variation from H7951 (שָׁלָה) through the idea of sluggishness;
KJV Translations
quails
Occurrences4
Frequency Rank#3558