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Lexicon :: Strong's H7776 - šûʿāl

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שׁוּעָל
Transliteration
šûʿāl
Pronunciation
shoo-awl'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as שֹׁעַל (H8168)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2433a

Strong’s Definitions

שׁוּעָל shûwʻâl, shoo-awl'; or שֻׁעָל shuʻâl; from the same as H8168; a jackal (as a burrower):—fox.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's H7776 in the following manner: fox (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's H7776 in the following manner: fox (7x).
  1. fox, a burrower

    1. fox

    2. perhaps also jackal

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שׁוּעָל shûwʻâl, shoo-awl'; or שֻׁעָל shuʻâl; from the same as H8168; a jackal (as a burrower):—fox.
STRONGS H7776: Abbreviations
† I. שׁוּעָל noun masculineSongs 2:15 fox, perhaps also jackal; — absolute שׁ׳ Nehemiah 3:25; plural שׁוּעָלִים Judges 15:4 +, שֻׁ׳ Ezekiel 13:4; Songs 2:15b; — fox (probably) Nehemiah 3:25; Songs 2:15 (twice in verse); perhaps (from large number) jackal Judges 15:4; as haunting ruins Ezekiel 13:4; Lamentations 5:18; eating offal Psalm 63:11.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

15:4; 15:4

Nehemiah

3:25; 3:25

Psalms

63:11

Song of Songs

2:15; 2:15; 2:15

Lamentations

5:18

Ezekiel

13:4; 13:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H7776 matches the Hebrew שׁוּעָל (šûʿāl),
which occurs 7 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - So Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches and turning the foxes tail to tail, he put a torch between each pair of tails.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:3 - Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they are building—if a fox should get up on it, he would break down their stone wall.”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:10 -

They will be given over to the power of the sword;

They will be a prey for foxes.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:15 -

(The Chorus)

“Catch the foxes for us,

The little foxes that spoil and ruin the vineyards [of love],

While our vineyards are in blossom.”

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:18 -

As for Mount Zion, which lies desolate,

Foxes and the jackals prowl over it.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - “O Israel, your prophets have been like [fn]foxes among the ruins.
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