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Heb. Putiel', ôּåּèַéàֵì , afflicted of God; Sept. Öïõôéήë ), the father of the wife of Eleazar the priest and the mother of Phinehas (Exo_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).