Quails (Hebrew: SELAV ). The quail is a bird of passage, about the size of a turtle-dove, and resembles the American partridge. They are plentiful near the shores of the Dead Sea, the Jordan, and in the deserts of Arabia. Its flight is very low, especially when fatigued, and it keeps close to the ground. They migrate in vast flocks, and at night, when they settle, they are so exhausted they may be captured by the hand ( Exodus 16:13).

Quarry (Hebrew: PESEL ). In Judges 3:19, only, in 52 other places graven, or carved images. — .

Quartus (“four, fourth” ) A disciple of Corinth ( Romans 16:23). Tradition says he became bishop of Berytus.

Quaternion (“four” ) A guard of four soldiers, two were attached to the prisoner, and two kept watch outside the cell ( Acts 12:4). Queen (Hebrew: MALCAH, “wife” ), ( Esther 1:9). SHEGAL, “consort” ( Nehemiah 2:6), GEBIRAH “powerful” ( 1 Kings 15:13). Queen is applied to the woman who exercises the highest authority; and this in the East, is not the wife but the mother of the master. The case of Esther is an exception. Queen of Heaven (MELECHETH HASHSHAMAYIM ). and . Quick 1. (Hebrew: HAY or CHAY , alive, living) ( Numbers 16:30). 2. (Hebrew: MIHYAH or MICHYAH , “the quick”), ( Leviticus 13:10). 3. (Hebrew: HARIHO or HARICHO , “to breathe”), ( Isaiah 11:3). Greek: zon , “the quick and the dead” ( Acts 10:42). Quicken, to (Hebrew: HIYAH or CHIYAH, to live ), to give spiritual or eternal ( John 6:63).

Quicksands (Greek: surtis; Latin: syrtis ), ( Acts 27:17). The sand from the great desert of Sahara is carried by the wind into the sea, along the shore, where the sluggish currents in the Syrtis Minor and Syrtis Major (two great bays on the coast of Africa) allow it to settle and form quicksand — that is sand and water in such a state as to move with a current or be tossed into waves by a storm of wind — where a vessel is in great danger. This same sand, when carried by currents to the shore of Palestine, fills up the harbors there, and creeps up inland, destroying every green thing for miles, as at Gaza, Ascalon, Acre, Tyre, etc.

Quintus Memmius (Latin ), (2 Macc. 11:34 ). .