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HebrewH8439Proper Noun (Masculine)

תּוֹלָע

to.la

5Occurrences
H8439Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Tola, the name of two Israelites

the same as H8438 (תּוֹלָע); worm;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Issachar living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Issachar (H3485); brother of: Puah (H6312), Jashub (H3437H) and Shimron (H8110B); father of: Uzzi (H5813H), Rephaiah (H7509I), Jeriel (H3400), Jahmai (H3181), Ibsam (H3005) and Shemuel (H8050I) Also named: to.la.i (*תּוֹלָעִי *"Tolaite" H8440) § Tola = "worm" 1) the 1st born of Issachar and progenitor of the family of Tolaites 2) a man of Issachar, son of Puah and judge of Israel after Abimelech

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

תּוֹלָע appears 5 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
2
Genesis
1
Judges
1
Numbers
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 7:1BSB

The sons of Issachar:Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron—four in all.

1 Chronicles 7:2BSB

The sons of Tola:Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.

Genesis 46:13BSB

The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.

Judges 10:1BSB

After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.

Numbers 26:23BSB

These were the descendants of Issachar by their clans:The Tolaite clan from Tola,the Punite clan from Puvah,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.