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Puah
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.