Phut, Put
Phut, Put
Third son of Ham, the name being also applied to his descendants, and to the district they inhabited. Gen 10:6; 1Ch 1:8; Eze 27:10; Nah 3:9. The land of Phut is generally supposed to be the same as Libya, to the N.W. of Egypt. A broken fragment of the annals of Nebuchadnezzar mentions ‘the city of Phut-Yavan,’ or ‘Phut of the Ionians’ (that is Greeks). This however may refer to a different people. The same Hebrew word is translated Libya in Eze 30:5; Eze 38:5; and Libyans in Jer 46:9.