Puah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
pu'-a, pu'-va:
(1) pu'ah: One of the Hebrew midwives whom the king of Egypt
commanded to kill all male children of the Hebrews at birth.
The midwives, fearing God, refused to obey, pretending that
the children of the Hebrew women were usually born before they
arrived. Their act is spoken of as being meritorious in the
eyes of the Lord, who is said to have rewarded them by making
"houses" for them (Ex 1:15-20). In the Midrash, Ex Rabba',
Puah is identified with Miriam, and Shiphrah, the other
midwife, with her mother Jochebed. According to another
tradition Puah was a proselyte.
(2) pu'ah, in 1 Ch 7:1; puwwah, in Gen 46:13; Nu 26:23;
written also "Pua" the King James Version, and "Puvah" Revised
Version: Second son of Issachar, ancestor of the Punites,
enumerated in the desert census taken by Moses and Eleazar.
(3) pu'ah: Member of the tribe of Issachar, mentioned (Jdg
10:1) as the son of Dodo and the father of Tola, the judge.
Ella Davis Isaacs
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