Hoglah

Hoglah was one of the five daughters of Zelophehad of the tribe of Manasseh, who died in the wilderness without male heirs. When his daughters—Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah—petitioned Moses for their father's inheritance, God ruled in their favor, establishing the legal principle that daughters could inherit when there were no sons, provided they married within their own tribe to prevent transfer of tribal land (Numbers 27:1–11; 36:1–12).

The case of Zelophehad's daughters was landmark in Israelite law, cited explicitly in Numbers as a standing ordinance. Their names appear in three different lists (Numbers 26:33; 27:1; 36:11; Joshua 17:3), indicating the historical memory of the case was carefully preserved. Hoglah's name meaning his festival or partridge reflects the common use of animal or festivity names in ancient Israel. The daughters' inheritance was later confirmed in the tribal land allotments in Joshua, and the case remained the foundational precedent for daughters' inheritance rights in Israelite jurisprudence.