Shual (Hastings' Dictionary)

An Asherite, 1 Ch 7"*. SHUAL, The Land of (S^ie' px ' the land of the jackal ' ; B ^ -uydX, Luc. t; 717 i;arydX). — When the Philistines encamped at >iichmash, they .sent out three foragin" parties. One of these ' turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual' (1 S 13"). Another iiarty went westward towards Beth-horon, and the tliird apjiarently east- ward toward tlie wilderness.

The road to Ujihrah must have run northward between the last two routes, and the 'land of Shual' must conseijuently have been to the north of .Michmash {Mulhmds), and not far from Opiirali, wliich is very generally identified with the village et-Taiyibeh, to the east of Bethel {PEF Mem. ii. 293). C. W. Wilson.