KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Wild canine animals noted for craftiness. Sense 2: Used by figure of cunning or destructive persons.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Judges 15:4
Complete exact-word concordance
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.
And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and tooke firebrands, and turned taile to taile, and put a firebrand in the midst betweene two tailes.
1611 marginal noteOr, torches.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
1611 marginal noteHebr. they shall make him run out like water by the hands of the sword.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Take vs the foxes, the litle foxes, that spoile the vines: for our vines haue tender grapes.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Because of the mountaine of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walke vpon it.
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.
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.
And Iesus saith vnto him, The Foxes haue holes, and the birds of the ayre haue nests: but the sonne of man hath not where to lay his head.
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.
And Iesus said vnto him, Foxes haue holes, and birds of the aire haue nests, but the Sonne of man hath not where to lay his head.
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