Fox
(shu`al; compare Arabic tha`lab (Jdg 15:4; Neh 4:3; Ps 63:10;
Song 2:15; Lam 5:18; Ezek 13:4); alopex (Mt 8:20; Lk 9:58;
13:32)): The foxes of different parts of Europe and Western
Asia differ more or less from each other, and some authors
have given the local tyes distinct specific names. Tristram,
for instance, distinguishes the Egyptian fox...
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-Dens of
Mt 8:20; Lu 9:58
-Samson uses, to burn the field of the Philistines
Jud 15:4
-Depredations of
Ps 63:10; So 2:15
-Held in contempt
Ne 4:3
-FIGURATIVE
Of unfaithful prophets
Eze 13:4
Of craftiness
Lu 13:32
Of heretics
So 2:15...
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(Heb. shu'al). Probably the jackal is the animal signified in
almost all the passages in the Old Testament where the Hebrew
term occurs. Though both foxes and jackals abound in Israel,
the shu'alim (foxes) of Jud 15:4 are evidently jackals and not
foxes, for the former animal is gregarious, whereas the latter
is solitary in its habits; and Sam...
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(Heb. shu'al, a name derived from its digging or burrowing
under
ground), the Vulpes thaleb, or Syrian fox, the only
species of
this animal indigenous to Israel. It burrows, is
silent and
solitary in its habits, is destructive to vineyards,
being a
plunderer of ripe grapes (Cant. 2:15). The Vulpes
Niloticus, or
Egyptian dog-fox, and the V...
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shuw'al, from sha'al "to burrow" (Nehemiah 4:3; Lamentations
5:18; Matthew 8:20). In Hebrew including also the jackal
which preys on unburied carcasses; "they shall be a portion
for jackals" (Psalm 63:9-10), fulfilled on "the seekers
after David's soul" (2 Samuel 18:7-17). So Samson's 300
jackals (Judges 15); for jackals are gregarious, the fo...
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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....
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And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds
of the air [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to
lay [his] head....
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And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the
air [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay
[his] head....
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Fox. - Thus is usually rendered the Hebrew, shû'ãl, which signifies both fox and jackal, even the latter more often than the former. The fox, however, was well known by the ancient Hebrews, and its cunning was as proverbial among them as among us (Ezekiel 13:4; Luke 13:32)....
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