Tola [Tō'lă]—scarlet, from the color of a worm.

1. A son of Issachar and founder of a tribal family (Gen. 46:13; Num. 26:23; 1 Chron. 7:1, 2).
2. The son of Puah of the tribe of Issachar. This Tola, sometimes identified with the first one, was the first of the five minor Judges, and judged Israel for twenty-three years. He lived and died at Shamar (Judg. 10:1, 2).