Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7776
שׁוּעָל
shualshoo-awl'
fox
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shûwʻâl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7776is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7776
a jackal (as a burrower)
The King James renders it: fox.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shual is rendered "fox". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Song of Solomon, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 15:4Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
Judges 15:4שׁוּעָלִ֑ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's seven uses are in Song of Solomon.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- foxes5
- a fox1
- like foxes1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שׁוּב | shub | to return: return | Uses1,056 |
| שׁוּר | shur | to see | Uses15 |
| שׁוּט | shut | to rove | Uses13 |
| שׁוּשַׁן | shushan | lily | Uses13 |
| שׁוּל | shul | hem | Uses11 |
| שׁוּחָה | shuchah | pit | Uses5 |
| שׁוּחִי | Shuchi | Shuhite | Uses5 |
| שׁוּף | shuph | to bruise | Uses4 |
| שׁוּק | shuq | street | Uses4 |
| שׁוּר | shur | wall | Uses4 |
| שׁוּק | shuq | to overflow | Uses3 |
| שׁוּר | shur | to travel | Uses3 |
and 11 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כְּשֻׁעָלִ֖ים1
- שׁוּעָ֔ל1
- שׁוּעָלִ֑ים1
- שֽׁוּעָלִ֔ים1
- שֽׁוּעָלִ֥ים1
- שׁוּעָלִ֖ים1
- שֻׁעָלִ֣ים1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural5HNcmpa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
Judges
one use
Then Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes. And he took torches, turned the foxes tail-to-tail, and fastened a torch between each pair of tails.
- שׁוּעָלִ֑יםshualimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: foxes
Nehemiah
one use
Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
- שׁוּעָ֔לshualnoun · masculine singulartagged: a fox
Psalms
one use
They will fall to the power of the sword; they will become a portion for foxes.
- שֻׁעָלִ֣יםshualimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: foxes
Song of Solomon
two uses
Catch for us the foxes—the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—for our vineyards are in bloom.
- שֽׁוּעָלִ֔יםshualimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: foxes
- שֽׁוּעָלִ֥יםshualimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: foxes
Lamentations
one use
because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
- שׁוּעָלִ֖יםshualimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: foxes
Ezekiel
one use
Your prophets, O Israel, are like foxes among the ruins.
- כְּשֻׁעָלִ֖יםkeshualimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like foxes
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.