Strong's #7958: slav (pronounced sel-awv')
or slayv {sel-awv'}; by orthographical variation from 7951 through the idea of sluggishness; the quail collectively (as slow in flight from its weight):--quails.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ׂ / ׂ
śelâv / śelâyv
1) quail
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: by orthographical variation from H7951 through the idea of sluggishness
Usage:
This word is used 4 times:
Exodus 16:13: "And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning"
Numbers 11:31: "from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall"
Numbers 11:32: "day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers:"
Psalms 105:40: "The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven."