Hoglah

Hoglah was one of five sisters whose father, Zelophehad, died with no sons. In Numbers the sisters came forward, named in full, to ask for a share of the land that would otherwise pass to other families. Their request was heard and granted, and Joshua later records their inheritance. A final chapter shows them marrying within their own tribe so that the land stayed where it belonged. Hoglah is named each time with Mahlah, Noah, Milcah and Tirzah, so her story is really a shared one. Numbers 27 is the best place to begin reading.

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Numbers

Numbers 26:33

And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 27:1

Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

Numbers 36:11

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

Joshua

Joshua 17:3

But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Partridge, one of the daughters of Zelophehad the Gileadite, to whom portions were assigned by Moses (Num. 26:33; 27:1; 36:11).

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(partridge), the third of the five daughters of Zelophehad. (Numbers 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Joshua 17:3) (B.C. 1450.)

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary and Smith's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.