Hebrew

nāḥīl - bee-hive, also the bees of a hive; swarm (Jastrow 894)

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PS
*nVḥl- - swarm of bees (SED II No. 160)
Cf. Syr nāḥəlat ḳamḥā ‘insectum quoddam’ (LSyr. 423), ‘papilio’ (PS 2337), literally ‘sifting-the-flour’. Both elements may represent original faunal terms reinterpreted by popular etymology (cf. *ḳVmḥ- ‘kind of insect’, SED II. No. 129)