Quail
kwal (selaw; ortugometra; Latin Coturnix vulgaris): A game
bird of the family Coturnix, closely related to "partridges"
(which see). Quail and partridges are near relatives, the
partridge a little larger and of brighter color. Quail are
like the gray, brown and tan of earth. Their plumage is cut
and penciled by markings, and their flesh juicy ...
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-The miracle of, in the Wilderness of Sin
Ex 16:13
-The miracle of, at Kibroth-hattaavah
Nu 11:31,32; Ps 105:40...
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There can be no doubt that the Hebrew word in the Pentateuch
Ex 16:13; Nu 11:31,32 and in the 105th Psalm, denotes the
common quail, Coturnix dactylisonans. (The enormous quantity
of quails taken by the Israelites has its parallel in modern
times. Pliny states that they sometimes alight on vessels in
the Mediterranean and sink them. Colenel Sy...
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The Israelites were twice relieved in their privation by a
miraculous supply of quails, (1) in the wilderness
of Sin (Ex.
16:13), and (2) again at Kibroth-hattaavah (q.v.),
Num. 11:31.
God "rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered
fowls like as
the sand of the sea" (Ps. 78:27). The words in Num.
11:31,
according to the Authorized Vers...
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celaw. The Arabic name is similar, which identifies the
quail as meant. Twice miraculously supplied to Israel
(Exodus 16:13; Numbers 11:31-32). Psalm 105:40 connects the
quail with the manna, and therefore refers to Exodus 16:13,
the first sending of quails, the psalm moreover referring to
God's acts of grace. Psalm 78:27; Psalm 78:31, refers ...
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And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails
from the sea, and let [them] fall by the camp, as it were a
day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on
the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two
cubits [high] upon the face of the earth....
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And the people stood up all that day, and all [that] night,
and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that
gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread [them] all
abroad for themselves round about the camp....
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And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and
covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about
the host....
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Quail. - The description given Ex., xvi, 11-13; Num., xi, 31, 32; Ps., lxxvii (Hebr., lxxviii) 27-35, and civ (Hebr., cv), 40, the references to their countless flocks, their low flying, their habit of alighting on land in the morning, together with the analogy of the Hebrew and Arabic names, make it certain that the common quail (coturnix vulgaris...
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