Lexical Definition

‎פּוּט‎ Pûwṭ (poot) Put ^N:N-M-P
of foreign origin

Phut, Put.

• § Phut or Put = "a bow"
• Put, a son of Ham, also the name of his descendants or their region, and of a Persian tribe

1) a nation and people of northern Africa; probably Libyans

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎פּוּט‎ proper name, of a people probably Libyans, or Libyan tribe; usually named with African peoples: Nah 3:9; Jer 46:9; Ezek 27:10; Ezek 30:5; Ezek 38:5 (ᵐ5 usually Λίβυες); Gen 10:6 (P) = 1Chr 1:8 (Φουδ); + Isa 66:19 (for ᵑ0 ‎פּוּל‎; ᵐ5 φουδ), — see Di^{Gen 10:6} Jen^{ZA x. 325 ff}.

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