Bible Person

Phut

Male · 3 cross references

Phut is one of the sons of Ham and an ancestral name associated with peoples beyond Israel in the wider biblical world. He belongs to the table of nations that maps humanity after the flood. First appears in Gen 10:6.1

AI summary: Phut matters because the cross references place his name first in the foundational post-flood genealogy and later in prophetic and trade-world settings. That continuation shows how Genesis' ancestral names become shorthand for actual peoples and regions in the Bible's broader geopolitical imagination. Taken together, the material presents Phut as an ancestral ethnonym linking primeval genealogy with the later international world surrounding Israel.1