Hebrew word · H8439

תּוֹלָע

tola'

Tola

Appears 6 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Issachar living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Gen.46.13;

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

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 46:13 תּוֹלָ֥ע Tola

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

Numbers · 1

  1. Numbers 26:23 תּוֹלָ֕ע Tola

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

Judges · 1

  1. Judges 10:1 תּוֹלָ֧ע Tola

    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.

1 Chronicles · 3

  1. 1 Chronicles 7:1 תּוֹלָ֧ע Tola

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

  2. 1 Chronicles 7:2 תוֹלָ֗ע לְתוֹלָ֔ע Tola, of Tola

    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.

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