Dict: smith - PHUT, PUT

smith:

PHUT, PUT - P>@ - (a bow) the third name in the list of the sons of Ham kjv@Genesis:10:6; kjv@1Chronicles:1:8) elsewhere applied to an African country or people. The few mentions of Phut in the Bible clearly indicate a country or people of Africa, and, it must be added, probably not far from Egypt. kjv@Isaiah:66:19; kjv@Jeremiah:46:9; kjv@Ezekiel:27:10 kjv@Ezekiel:30:5 kjv@Ezekiel:38:5 ; kjv@Nahum:3:9) Some identify it with Libya, in the northern part Africa near the Mediterranean Sea; others, as Mr. Poole, with Nubia, south of Egypt.