Bible Person

Puah

Meaning: mouth; corner; bush of hair · Male · 3 cross references

Puah is a son of Issachar whose name is preserved in patriarchal, census, and chronicled tribal lists. He belongs to the ancestral structure that gives Issachar its internal family branches. First appears in Gen 46:13.1

AI summary: Puah matters because the cross references preserve his line across several stages of Israel's remembered history, from Jacob's household to the wilderness generation and later retelling. That repetition shows how tribal identity was sustained through named family heads whose descendants carried the line forward. Taken together, the material presents Puah as an Issacharite forefather whose place helps preserve the continuity of the tribe.1