H7776: שׁוּעָל
shûwʻâl · pronounced shoo-awl' · “fox”
Definition
a jackal (as a burrower)
KJV translates it as: fox.
Word origin: or שֻׁעָל; from the same as H8168 (שֹׁעַל);
Extended definition
1a) fox
1b) perhaps also jackal
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H7776 is translated
- foxes ×6
- a fox ×1
Bible verses with H7776 (shûwʻâl)
Shûwʻâl appears in 6 verses.
- Judges 15:4
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.
- Nehemiah 4:3
Now 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 63:10
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
- Song of Solomon 2:15
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
- Lamentations 5:18
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
- Ezekiel 13:4
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.