Bible Person

Puah

Meaning: mouth; corner; bush of hair · Male · 1 cross reference

This Puah entry refers to the Hebrew midwife in Exodus 1:15, not to the ancestor in Judges 10:1. This figure belongs to the earliest acts of faithful resistance in Israel's oppression narrative. First appears in Exod 1:15.1

AI summary: This Puah matters because this single cross reference preserves a woman's courageous refusal to obey Pharaoh's murderous command. The entry shows that Israel's survival in Egypt depended in part on hidden, costly obedience from ordinary people who feared God. Taken together, the material presents this Puah as a midwife whose faith resisted oppression.1

Central Figure

Puah

Meaning: mouth; corner; bush of hair

One of the two midwives who feared God, and refused to kill the Hebrew male children at their birth (Ex.