Topic
Puah
4 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Judges 10:1Easton · Smith · Nave 2. Father of Tola
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.
- Exodus 1:15Smith · Nave 1. A Hebrew midwife
¶ 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:
- Exodus 1:15–21Easton
¶ 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: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye…
- 1 Chronicles 7:1Smith
Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
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).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
- The father of Tola, a man of the tribe of Issachar and judge of Israel after Abimelech. (Judges 10:1) (B.C. 1211.)
- The son of Issachar, (1 Chronicles 7:1) elsewhere called Phuvah and Pua.
- One of the two midwives to whom Pharaoh gave instructions to kill the Hebrew male children at their birth. (Exodus 1:15) (B.C. 1571.)
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.