. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Jackal, Cants aureus.—(Fbn.) for the former animal is gregarious, the latter soli-tary in its habits, and it is improbable that Samsonshould have succeeded in catching 300 foxes, where-. Fox of the Nile, Vulpee Niloticus. as he could readily have taken in snares (so the Heb.)so many jackals. He may have had men to helphim; some of the animals might have been taken in one portion of the Philistines territory, andsome in another, and let loose in different parts, and150 different centres of conflagration through thecountry of the Philistines must have
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . Jackal, Cants aureus.—(Fbn.) for the former animal is gregarious, the latter soli-tary in its habits, and it is improbable that Samsonshould have succeeded in catching 300 foxes, where-. Fox of the Nile, Vulpee Niloticus. as he could readily have taken in snares (so the Heb.)so many jackals. He may have had men to helphim; some of the animals might have been taken in one portion of the Philistines territory, andsome in another, and let loose in different parts, and150 different centres of conflagration through thecountry of the Philistines must have burnt upnearly all their corn. Both the fox and the jackalare fond of grapes and very destructive to vineyards(Cant. ii. 15); both have holes and burrows amongruins (Neh. iv. 3; Lam. v. 18; Mat. viii. 20; 58). The crafty rapacity of Herod might be rep-resented by either (Lk. xiii. 32; compare Ez. ). The jackal of Palestine is no doubt the Canisaureus, which may be heard every night in the vil-lages. Hemprich and Ehrenberg speak of a vulpineanimal, under the name of Canis Syriacus, as beingfound in Lebanon. The Egyptian Vulpes Niloticus( =fox of the Nile), and doubtless the common Euro-pean red fox, V. vulgaris
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