Pul

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pul
       n : 100 puls equal 1 afghani
       [also: {puli} (pl)]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Pul
     (1.) An Assyrian king. It has been a question whether he was
     identical with Tiglath-pileser III. (q.v.), or was his
     predecessor. The weight of evidence is certainly in favour of
     their identity. Pul was the throne-name he bore in Babylonia as
     king of Babylon, and Tiglath-pileser the throne-name he bore as
     king of Assyria. He was the founder of what is called the second
     Assyrian empire. He consolidated and organized his conquests on
     a large scale. He subdued Northern Syria and Hamath, and the
     kings of Syria rendered him homage and paid him tribute. His
     ambition was to found in Western Asia a kingdom which should
     embrace the whole civilized world, having Nineveh as its centre.
     Menahem, king of Israel, gave him the enormous tribute of a
     thousand talents of silver, "that his hand might be with him" (2
     Kings 15:19; 1 Chr. 5:26). The fact that this tribute could be
     paid showed the wealthy condition of the little kingdom of
     Israel even in this age of disorder and misgovernment. Having
     reduced Syria, he turned his arms against Babylon, which he
     subdued. The Babylonian king was slain, and Babylon and other
     Chaldean cities were taken, and Pul assumed the title of "King
     of Sumer [i.e., Shinar] and Accad." He was succeeded by
     Shalmanezer IV.
     
       (2.) A geographical name in Isa. 66:19. Probably = Phut (Gen.
     10:6; Jer. 46:9, R.V. "Put;" Ezek. 27:10).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Pul, bean; destruction