* the quails.
The Hebrew {selav,} Chaldee {selaiv,} Syriac and Arabic
{selwa,} is without doubt the quail: so the LXX. render it
[ortygom(8274)re,] a large kind of quail. Josephus, [ortyx,]
Ethopic, {ferferat,} and Vulgate, {coturnices,} quails, with
which agree Philo and the Rabbins. The quail is a bird of the
gallinaceous kind, somewhat less than a pigeon, but larger
than a sparrow. Hasselquist describes the quail of the larger
kind as very much resembling the red partridge, but not larger
than the turtle dove; found in Judea as well as in the deserts
of Arabia Petra(9120)and Egypt; and affording a most agreeable and
delicate dish.
Nu 11:31-33 Ps 78:27,28 105:40
* the dew.
Nu 11:9
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