Strong’s H7776 · Hebrew
שׁוּעָל
shûwʻâl · shoo-awl'
Origin or שֻׁעָל; from the same as שֹׁעַל (H8168);
Meaning a jackal (as a burrower)
In the King James Version fox.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 15:4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
- Nehemiah 4:3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
- Psalms 63:10They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
- Song of Songs 2:15Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
- Lamentations 5:18Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- Ezekiel 13:4O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.