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title: פֻּוָּה — fair · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פֻּוָּה (6312), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: fair. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פֻּוָּה

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«פֻּוָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fair** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 6312 · **BDB:** פּוּאָה

### Glosses

Puah (3); of.Puah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fair [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6312/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6312/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Issachar, Φουα, etc.;—פּוּאָה Ju 10:1 (v. GFM), 1 Ch 7:1; פֻּוָּה Gn 46:13; Nu 26:3.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פֻּוָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6312/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 46:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.13/)

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וּבְנֵ֖י יִשָׂשכָ֑ר תּוֹלָ֥ע וּפֻוָּ֖ה וְי֥וֹב וְשִׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Issachar Tola and Puah and Iob and Shimron

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.

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[1 Chronicles 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.1/)

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וְלִבְנֵ֣י יִשָׂשכָ֗ר תּוֹלָ֧ע וּפוּאָ֛ה יָשׁ֥וּב וְשִׁמְר֖וֹן אַרְבָּעָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to the.sons of.Issachar Tola and Puah Jashub and Shimron four

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

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