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Puah (a personal name for a Hebrew midwife in Egypt)
A feminine personal name appearing in Exodus 1:15, identifying one of the two Hebrew midwives who defied Pharaoh's command to kill Hebrew male infants. Puah, along with Shiphrah, feared God and preserved the baby boys' lives, providing excuses to Pharaoh. These women's courageous civil disobedience forms a crucial early step in the exodus narrative, as their actions allowed Moses' generation to survive.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The feminine personal name 'Puah' identifies one of the heroic Hebrew midwives in Exodus 1:15 who defied Pharaoh's genocidal command. Along with Shiphrah, Puah preserved Hebrew male infants by refusing to kill them at birth, claiming the Hebrew women gave birth too quickly for the midwives to intervene. Their faithful disobedience represents early resistance to oppression and enabled the survival of Moses' generation. 1×
AR["فُوعَةُ"]·ben["পূয়া"]·DE["Puah"]·EN["Puah"]·FR["Puah"]·heb["פועה"]·HI["पूʿआ"]·ID["Pua"]·IT["Puah"]·jav["Pua"]·KO["부아"]·PT["Pu'ah"]·RU["Пуа"]·ES["Puah"]·SW["Pua"]·TR["Pua"]·urd["فوعہ"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† פּוּעָה n.pr.f. a midwife Ex 1:15, Φουα.