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# שׁוּעָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7776

**fox** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fox [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7776/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שׁוּעָל: n.m. fox jackal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7776/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ct 2:15 fox, perhaps also jackal;—abs. שׁ׳ Ne 3:25; pl. שׁוּעָלִים Ju 15:4 +, שֻׁ׳ Ez 13:4; Ct 2:15 b;—fox (prob.) Ne 3:25; Ct 2:15(×2); perhaps (from large no.) jackal Ju 15:4; as haunting ruins Ez 13:4; La 5:18; eating offal ψ 63:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: foxes (5); a fox (1); of foxes (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 63:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.11/#tree)

יַגִּירֻ֥הוּ עַל־יְדֵי־חָ֑רֶב מְנָ֖ת שֻׁעָלִ֣ים יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* people will.pour.him over \[the\].hands of.\[the\].sword \[the\].portion of.foxes they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* They shall be hurled to the power of the sword; they shall be a portion for foxes.

[Ezekiel 13:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.13.4/#tree)

כְּשֻׁעָלִ֖ים בָּחֳרָב֑וֹת נְבִיאֶ֥יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל הָיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* like foxes among ruins prophets your O.Israel they.have.been

*JPS 1917:* O Israel, thy prophets have been like foxes in ruins.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7776.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7776/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).