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Put

North Africa (often Libya) · Old Testament · 841 verses

Put, sometimes spelled Phut, was a North African people descended from Ham, commonly associated with the region of Libya. It appears as a land supplying warriors. The name appears in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and 53 more in the King James text.

About Put

Put, sometimes spelled Phut, was a North African people descended from Ham, commonly associated with the region of Libya. It appears as a land supplying warriors.

Its place in the story

Put is named in the table of nations and among the peoples in the prophecies of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Nahum. It is often listed alongside Cush and Egypt as an allied fighting force. It represents the North African nations of the biblical world.

Put in Scripture (KJV)

“And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.”
Genesis 2:8 (KJV)
“And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.”
Genesis 2:15 (KJV)
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
Genesis 3:15 (KJV)
“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:”
Genesis 3:22 (KJV)
“But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.”
Genesis 8:9 (KJV)
“And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.”
Genesis 10:6 (KJV)
“But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.”
Genesis 19:10 (KJV)
“And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:”
Genesis 24:2 (KJV)

Put is named 841 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

Put belongs to the family of nations whose ultimate hope, like all peoples, is the blessing promised through Abraham's seed, Christ.

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Put, sometimes spelled Phut, was a North African people descended from Ham, commonly associated with the region of Libya. It appears as a land supplying warriors. The name appears in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and 53 more in the King James text.

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Put is named in the table of nations and among the peoples in the prophecies of Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Nahum. It is often listed alongside Cush and Egypt as an allied fighting force. It represents the North African nations of the biblical world.

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