Lexical Definition

‎פּוּל‎ Pûwl (pool) Pul ^N:N-M-P
of foreign origin

Pul.

• § Pul = "distinguishing"
• Pul, the name of an Assyrian king and of an Ethiopian tribe

1) the Babylonian name for Tiglath-pileser III, king of Assyria

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎פּוּל‎ proper name, masculine = ‎תִּגְלַת פְּלֶאסֶר‎ (q. v.) (Assyrian Pulu; Babylonian name of Tiglath-pileser, Schr^{SBAk 1887, 592; KB ii, 287, compare 277} Tiele^{Gesch 266 f.}; compare (through Persian tradition, EMey^{Entstehung, 30}) Πῶρος, Canon of Ptolemy KAT^{2, 490}); 2Kgs 15:19 (twice in verse); 1Chr 5:26, Φουα[λ]. — Isa 66:19, see ‎פוט‎.

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