Put

Put (Poot)

1 The third son of Ham (Gen 10:6; 1Chr 1:8). 2 A region in Africa, probably located in Libya. Warriors from Put fought on the side of the Ethiopians and Egyptians when the Assyrians captured No-amon (Thebes) in 663 BCE (Nah 3:9; Ezek 30:5).

Gen 10:6

6The descendants of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

1Chr 1:8

8The descendants of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.

Nah 3:9

9Ethiopia was her strength,
Egypt too, and that without limit;
Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

Ezek 30:5

5Ethiopia, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the allied land shall fall with them by the sword.

HarperCollins Dictionary

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