Hoglah
Exodus & Wilderness
Tribe of Manasseh
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H2295
Hoglah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad who received an inheritance in the Promised Land due to their father's lack of male heirs.
Hoglah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh, who had died in the wilderness leaving no male heirs. Her sisters—Mahlah, Noah, Milcah, and Tirzah—joined her in petitioning Moses for their father's inheritance, and God ruled in their favor, establishing a legal precedent for daughters' inheritance rights in Israel (Numbers 27:1–11; 36:1–12). Hoglah and her sisters are thus significant figures in the development of Israelite property law, and their case is affirmed as just in the divine decree recorded in Numbers.