Puah

Puah in the Topics

Splendid. (1.) One of the two midwives who feared God, and refused to kill the Hebrew male children at their birth (Ex 1:15–21).

(2.) A descendant of Issachar (Judg 10:1).

Named in the Bible

3 verses

  • Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
  • Judges 10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
  • 1 Chronicles 7:1 Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.