Putiel

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

Father to the wife of Eleazar. ( Exodus 6:25) The name seems to be a compound of Phut, fulness and I-el, my God. God is my fulness.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Pu'ti-el. One of the daughters of Putiel was wife of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, and mother of Phinehas.  Exodus 6:25. (B.C. before 1481).

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Exodus 6:25. An Egyptian name, "devoted to Εl ." Father in law of Eleazar the priest.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

PUTIEL . The father-in-law of Eleazar (  Exodus 6:25 ).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Father-in-law of Eleazar, son of Aaron.  Exodus 6:25 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Exodus 6:25

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Heb. Putiel', פּוּטַיאֵל , Afflicted Of God; Sept. Φουτιήλ ), the father of the wife of Eleazar the priest and the mother of Phinehas ( Exodus 6:25). B.C. cir. 1619. In modern Jewish traditions Putiel is confounded with Jethro the Midianite, "who fatted the calves for idolatrous worship" (Targum Pseudojon. On Ezod. 6:25; Gemara Of Sota by Wagenseil, c. viii. § 6).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

pū´ti - el ( פּוּטיאל , pūṭı̄'ēl , "contemned by El"): Father of the wife of Eleazar, Aaron's son, and thus grandfather of Phinehas, Eleazar's son (  Exodus 6:25 ). See Phinehas , (3).