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Shual
Open directlySmith's Bible Dictionary · 1863
(a jackal), son of Zophah, an Asherite. (1 Chronicles 7:36) (B.C. after 1445.)
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Hastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
SHU'AL (a fox), an Asherite. 1 Chr 7:36.
SHU'AL (fox, or jackal), THE LAND OF, a district toward which one of the three devastating bands of Philistines went from Michmash. 1 Sam 13:17. It was probably not far from Bethel. It is not mentioned elsewhere, but there is a wild region east of Taiyibeh containing a ravine named that of "hyaenas," and it may be identical with the land of Shalim. 1 Sam 9:4.
Scripture references
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · 1869
fox; path; first
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
SHU'AL (fox, or jackal), THE LAND OF, a district toward which one of the three devastating bands of Philistines went from Michmash. 1 Sam 13:17. It was probably not far from Bethel. It is not mentioned elsewhere, but there is a wild region east of Taiyibeh containing a ravine named that of "hyaenas," and it may be identical with the land of Shalim. 1 Sam 9:4.