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Third son of Ham, the name being also applied to his descendants,
and to the district they inhabited. Gen. 10: 6; 1 Chr. 1: 8; Ezek. 27: 10; Nahum 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 Ezek. 30: 5; Ezek. 38: 5; and Libyans in Jer. 46: 9.