shual · fox, jackal

What it means

shual (שׁוּעָל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fox, jackal”.

Fox; the Hebrew word can also name the jackal, a similar animal that goes about in packs.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A wild dog-like animal; perhaps also the jackal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• foxes ×6
• fox ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Judges 15:4

  And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned them tail to tail and put one torch between the two tails, in the middle.

• Nehemiah 4:3

  And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Even what they are building— if a fox goes up, it will make a breach in the wall of their stones.”

• Psalms 63:10

  They will be handed over into the hands of the sword; a portion for foxes they will be.

• Song of Songs 2:15

  Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin vineyards, and our vineyards are in blossom.

• Lamentations 5:18

  because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate; foxes prowl on it.

• Ezekiel 13:4

  Like foxes among the ruins your prophets, Israel, have been.

And 1 more times.