Man living at the time of United Monarchy
Paruah, the father of Jehoshaphat, who was one of Solomon's twelve district governors.
🗺 Places mentioned alongside Paruah on the map →
Paruah was the father of Jehoshaphat, who served as one of the twelve district governors under King Solomon, according to 1Ki.4.17. Each governor was responsible for providing provisions for the royal household for one month of the year. Jehoshaphat son of Paruah was assigned to the hill country of Ephraim.
More background: search Wikipedia ↗
Flourishing, the father of Jehoshaphat, appointed to provide monthly supplies for Solomon from the tribe of Issachar (1 Kings 4:17).
(flourishing), the father of Jehoshaphat, Solomon’s commissariat officer in Issachar. (1 Kings 4:17) (B.C. about 1017.)
flourishing; that flies away
PAR'UAH (blossoming), the father of Jehoshaphat, one of Solomon's officers. 1 Kgs 4:17.
PAR'UAH (blossoming), the father of Jehoshaphat, one of Solomon's officers. 1 Kgs 4:17.
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H6515
Jehoshaphat son of Paruah in Issachar;
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.