Tola
תּוֹלָעStrong’s H8439tola (to-la)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tola is the Hebrew word usually translated “tola”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.”
Meaning
- The 1st born of Issachar and progenitor of the family of Tolaites
- A man of Issachar, son of Puah and judge of Israel after Abimelech
- The 1st born of Issachar and progenitor of the family of Tolaites
- A man of Issachar, son of Puah and judge of Israel after Abimelech
How it's translated
- tola 5
- of tola 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 26:23Of the sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites: of Pua, the family of the Punites:
- Judges 10:1And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
- 1 Chronicles 7:1Now the sons of Issachar were, Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimrom, four.
- 1 Chronicles 7:2And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹלָע tola · Tola
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
תּוֹלָע tola · Tola
A Judge living before Israel's Monarchy, only mentioned at Jdg.10.1; son of: Puah (H6312H) § 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tola” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TO'LA, noun
In India, a weight for gold and silver, but different in different places.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.