Shual (Shual= near Ophrah_1 (Ophrah@Jos.18.23-Mic=H6084G))

The name Shual covers two distinct entities that share a headword. The land of Shual was a district in Benjamin's hill country that Philistine raiders passed through during Saul's reign (1 Samuel 13:17). Shual son of Zophah was an unrelated individual, an Asherite clan head listed in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 7:36; his name, which means jackal, was apparently common enough to double as a place name elsewhere in the same territory.