Fox
שׁוּעָלStrong’s H7776shual (shu-al)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shual is the Hebrew word usually translated “foxes”, “fox” and “like foxes”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- Fox, a burrowerfox · perhaps also jackal
How it's translated
- foxes 5
- a fox 1
- like foxes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Psalms 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Lamentations 1
- Ezekiel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 Solomon 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.
Hebrew dictionary
שׁוּעָל shual · fox
1) fox, a burrower 1a) fox 1b) perhaps also jackal
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fox” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOX, verb transitive
To intoxicate; to stupify. [Not used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.