Bible Names

Puah: meaning of the name

Puah means “mouth; corner; bush of hair.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Puah in Hebrew and Greek

פּוּאָה H6312

Pûwʼâh (poo-aw') — Puah or Puvvah, the name of two Israelites

or פֻּוָּה; from H6284 (פָּאָה); a blast;

פּוּעָה H6326

Pûwʻâh (poo-aw') — Puah, an Israelitess

from an unused root meaning to glitter; brilliancy;

People named Puah in the Bible

Puah in Scripture

“Puah” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • 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.