H5780H

עוּץ

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Uz

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.22.21; son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Milcah (H4435); brother of: Buz (H0938), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Bethuel (H1328A); half-brother of: Tebah (H2875), Gaham (H1514), Tahash (H8477) and Maacah (H4601) § Uz = "wooded" 1) son of Aram and grandson of Seth 2) son of Nahor by Milcah 3) an Edomite, son of Dishan and grandson of Seir 4) the country of Job; probably east and southeast of Palestine somewhere in the Arabian desert

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

עוּץ proper name

1. masculine a. (eldest) 'son' of Aram Gen 10:23 (P), = 'son' of Shem 1Chr 1:17, ᵐ5 Ως, ᵐ5L Chronicles Ουζ.
  b. eldest 'son' of Nahor Gen 22:21 (J), A Ωξ, ᵐ5L Ωζ.
  c. Edomite name Gen 36:28 = 1Chr 1:42, ᵐ5 Ως, ᵐ5L Ους
2. location (=
1. a, b, possibly also c), מַלְכֵי אֶרֶץ הָעוּץ Jer 25:20 (ᵐ5 omitted); בְּאֶרֶץעֿוּץ Job 1:1 (home of Job), ᵐ5 Αυσιτις; Lam 4:21 (strike out עוּץ ᵐ5 compare Bu and references); on Uz as vague name for east country see especially Buix. f.; DlPa 259, ZKF ii. 87 ff. puts in Hauran, or north (northeast) therefrom, = Assyrian Uƒƒu, but dubious with name עוּץ RSK 261 compare Arabic proper name, of divinity. , so WeHeid. 2, 146; against this NöZMG xi (1886), 183 f., but see reply RSSem i. 43.


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