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# פּוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6322

**Pul** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Pul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6322/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פּוּל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6322/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. = תִּגְלַת פְּלֶאסֶר (q.v.) (Assyrian Pulu; Babylonian name of TP, SchrSBAk 1887, 592; KB ii, 287, cf. 277 TieleGesch. 266f.; cf. (through Pers. trad., EMeyEntstehung, 30) Πῶρος, Canon of Ptol. KAT2, 490); 2 K 15:19(×2); 1 Ch 5:26, Φουα\[λ\].—Is 66:19, v. פוט.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Pul (2); of Pul (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.19/#tree)

בָּ֣א פ֤וּל מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁוּר֙ עַל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וַיִּתֵּ֤ן מְנַחֵם֙ לְפ֔וּל אֶ֖לֶף כִּכַּר־כָּ֑סֶף לִהְי֤וֹת יָדָיו֙ אִתּ֔וֹ לְהַחֲזִ֥יק הַמַּמְלָכָ֖ה בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he.came Pul the.king of.Assyria on the land and he.gave Menahem to Pul a.thousand talent\[s\] of.silver to be hands his with him to strengthen the kingdom in hand his

*JPS 1917:* There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

[1 Chronicles 5:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.26/#tree)

וַיָּעַר֩ אֱלֹהֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל אֶת־ר֣וּחַ ׀ פּ֣וּל מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֗וּר וְאֶת־ר֙וּחַ֙ תִּלְּגַ֤ת פִּלְנֶ֙סֶר֙ תִּלְּגַ֤ת פִּלְנֶ֙סֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר וַיַּגְלֵם֙ לָראוּבֵנִ֣י וְלַגָּדִ֔י וְלַחֲצִ֖י שֵׁ֣בֶט מְנַשֶּׁ֑ה וַ֠יְבִיאֵם לַחְלַ֨ח וְחָב֤וֹר וְהָרָא֙ וּנְהַ֣ר גּוֹזָ֔ן עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.stirred.up the.God of.Israel (et) the.spirit of.Pul the.king of.Assyria and (et) the.spirit of Tiglath-pileser the.king of.Assyria and he took.them.into.exile to the Reubenite\[s\] and to the Gadite\[s\] and to the.half of.the.tribe of.Manasseh and he brought.them to Halah and Habor and Hara and the.river of.Gozan until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tillegath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6322.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6322/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).