1. שְׂלָו
quail
The corpus record — Hebrew
הַשְּׂלָ֔ו
selav · n.f
quail
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 4 · 0.13/10k
Senses
2. שְׂלָו
the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight)
Attestations
- הַ/שְּׂלָ֔ו Exodus 16:13 (BHS)
- שַׂלְוִים֮ Numbers 11:31 (BHS)
- הַ/שְּׂלָ֔ו Numbers 11:32 (BHS)
- שְׂלָ֑ו Psalms 105:40 (BHS)
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.