Bible Names

Tola: meaning of the name

Tola means “worm; grub; scarlet.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tola in Hebrew and Greek

תּוֹלָע H8439

Tôwlâʻ (to-law') — Tola, the name of two Israelites

the same as H8438 (תּוֹלָע); worm;

People named Tola in the Bible

Tola in Scripture

“Tola” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 46:13

    And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

  • Numbers 26:23

    Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:

  • 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.

  • 1 Chronicles 7:2

    And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.