Pout

See also: Pout (homonymy)

Pout (in Hebrew פוט, in the Seventy Φουδ Phoud ) is a character of the Old Testament of the Bible.

The character

Wire of Cham, he is thus grandson of Noah. He is quoted in the Genèse (Gn. 10:6) and in 1 Chronicles 1:8. Verses describe its descendants like warriors.

The country éponyme

It differs according to the sources: sometimes
  • the Seventy then the Vulgate, translates it as being the Libya. Flavius Josèphe goes in the same direction in the Jewish Antiquités : “Pout was the founder of Libya and called the inhabitants Poutites according to itself”.

  • the country of Pout is sometimes identified with that of Pount located on Western bank of the Red Sea southernmost. This country is attested in the steles of Sahourê of and by the channel built under the Pharaon Sésostris {{III}} between the the Nile and the Red Sea to facilitate the trade with Pount.

Today, in the debris of the Somalia, a state of the Pountland was constituted.

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