Bible Names N-Z

Pua in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

PUA or PHUVA (See PHUVAH.) 1. Numbers 26:23; father of TOLA, the judge (Judges 10:1). Punites, Pua's descendants.) (See PUNITES.) 2. 1 Chronicles 7:1. 3. (See MIDWIVES.)...

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Potiphar in Naves Topical Bible

-(An officer of Pharaoh. The LXX has "eunuch" even though he had a wife) -Joseph's master Ge 37:36; 39:1...

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Potipherah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a priest of On, whose daughter Asenath became Joseph's wife (Gen. 41:45)....

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Puah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

mouth; corner; bush of hair...

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Pilate in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(armed with a spear), Pontius. Pontius Pilate was the sixth Roman procurator of Judea, and under him our Lord worked, suffered and died, as we learn not only from Scripture, but from Tacitus (Ann. xv. 44). was appointed A.D. 25-6, in the twelfth year of Tiberius. His arbitrary administration nearly drove the Jews to insurrection on two or thre...

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Piram in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Amorite king of Jarmuth at Joshua's invasion (Joshua 10:3). Defeated before Gibeon with the other four kings, hid in the cave of Makkedah; hanged, and buried in the cave....

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Pontius in Hitchcock's Bible Names

marine; belonging to the sea...

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Pilate in Easton's Bible Dictionary

probably connected with the Roman family of the Pontii, and called "Pilate" from the Latin pileatus, i.e., "wearing the pileus", which was the "cap or badge of a manumitted slave," as indicating that he was a "freedman," or the descendant of one. He was the sixth in the order of the Roman procurators of Judea (A.D. 26-36). His headquarters...

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