UZ
The land in which Job dwelt, Job 1:1 Jer 25:20 Lam 4:21 . The Seventy call it Ausitis. It appears to have been a region in Arabia Deserta, between Palestine, Idumaea, and the Euphrates, and most probably not far from the borders of Idumaea. It is uncertain whether its inhabitants were descendants of Uz the son of Aram, Huz the son of Nahor, or Uz the Horite, Gen 10:23 22:21 36:28. They appear to have had much knowledge of the true God and the principles of virtue and religion.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Uz
(Heb. Uts, , awooded), the name of three men, and also of a region.
1. (Sept. v..r. , Vulg. Us’ or Fies.) First named of the four sons of Aram (Gen 10:23), and grandson of Shem (1Ch 1:17, where the lineage is condensed). B.C. post 2500.
2. (Sept., Vulg. Hus, A.V. Huz.) The oldest of the eight sons of Nahor by Milcah (Gen 22:21). B.C. cir. 2000.
3. (Sept. , Vulg. Ilus.) First named of the two sons of Dishan the Horite chieftain (Gen 36:28; 1Ch 1:42). B.C. post 1950.
4. THE LAND OF Uz was the country in which Job lived (Job 1:1; Sept. Vulg. Hus). As the genealogical statements of the book of Genesis are undoubtedly ethnological, and in many instances also geographical, it may fairly be surmised that the coincidence of names in the above cases is not accidental, but points to a fusion of various branches of the Shemitic race in a certain locality. This surmise is confirmed by the circumstance that other connecting links may be discovered between the same branches. For instance, Nos. 1 and 2 have in common the names Aram (comp. Gen 10:23; Gen 22:21) and Maachah as a geographical designation in connection with: the former (1Ch 19:6), and a personal one in connection with the latter (Gen 22:24). Nos. 2 and 4 have in common the names Buz and Buzite (Gen 22:21; Job 32:2), Chesed and Chasdim (Gen 22:22; Job 1:17, A.V. Chaldaean’s), Shuah, a nephew of Nahor, and Shuhite (Gen 25:2; Job 2:11), and Kedem, as the country whither Abraham sent Shuah, together with his other children by Keturah, and also as the country where Job lived (Gen 25:6; Job 1:3). Nos. 3 and 4, again, have in common. Eliphaz (Gen 36:10; Job 2:11), and Temrna an ad Temanite (Gen 36:11; Job 2, 11). The ethnological fact embodied in the above coincidences of names appears to be as follows: Certain branches of the Aramaic family, being both more ancient and occupying a more northerly position than the others, coalesced with branches of the later Abrahamids, holding a somewhat central position in Mesopotamia and Palestine, and again with branches of the still later Edomites of the south after they had become a distinct race from the Abrahamids.
This conclusion would receive confirmation if the geographical position of Uz, as described in the book of Job, harmonized with the probability of such an amalgamation. As far as we can gather, it lay either east or south-east of Palestine (Job 1:3) see BEN E-KEDIEM]; adjacent to the Sabeans and the Chaldaeans (Job 1:15; Job 1:17), consequently northward of the Southern Arabians, and westward of the Euphrates; and, lastly, adjacent to the Edomites of Mount Seir, who at one period occupied Uz, probably as conquerors (Lam 4:21), and whose troglodytic habits are probably described in Job 30:6-7. The position of the country may further be deduced from the native lands of Job’s friends, Eliphaz the Temanite being an Idummean, Eliha the Buzite being probably a neighbor of the Chaldeaans, for Buz and Chesed were brothers (Gen 22:21-22), and Bilaad the Shuhite being one of the Bene-Kedem. Whether Zophar the Naamathite is to be connected with Naamah in the tribe of Judah (Jos 15:41) may be regarded as problematical: if he were, the conclusion would be further established. From the above data we infer that the land of Uz corresponds to the Arabia Desert of classical geography, at all events to so much of it as lies north of the 30th parallel of latitude. This district has in all ages been occupied by nomadic tribes, who roam from the borders of Palestine to the Euphrates, and northward to the confines of Syria. SEE JOB.
The land of Uz is mentioned only in two other passages of Scripture. Jeremiah in one passage (25, 20; Sept. ,Vulg. Ausiis) groups it with Egypt, Philistia, Edom, and Moab; and in another he appears either to identify it with a portion of Edom, or to affirm that some of the Edomites in his days inhabited Uz (Lam 4:21; , Hus). These various statements show that Uz was closely connected with Edom, and thus in general corroborate the above position. SEE IDUMEA.
As to later opinions, Joseplus says that Uz founded Trachonitis and Damascus (Ant. 1, 6, 4). The former province lies in Bashan, and extends as far south as Bostra. It may have formed part of the land of Uz. Jerome appears to identify Uz with Damascus and Trachonitis, following Josephus (Quaest. in Genesis 10, 25; comp. Onomast. s.v. Uz). Bochart makes no less than three places of this name:
1. The Ghutah of Damascus, confounding the Arabic Ghutah with the Heb. , words which are altogether dissimilar;
2. The region of Ausitis, named from Uz, the son of Nahor (Gen 22:21);
3. Uz of Edom, the land of the patriarch Job (Opecra, 1, 80). There seems to be no sufficient authority for this threefold division. The general opinion of Biblical geographers and critics locates the land of Uz somewhere in Arabia Petrcea. Whether the name of Uz survived to classical times is uncertain: a tribe named Asitce () is mentioned by Ptolemy (5, 19, 2); this Bochart identifies with the Uz of Scripture by altering the reading into (Phaleg, 2, 8); but, with the exception of the rendering in the Sept. ( , Job 1:1; comp. Job 32:2), there is nothing to justify such a change. Gesenius (Thesaur. p. 1003) is satisfied with the form Lesitee as sufficiently corresponding to Uz; without any such change; as also Winer (Realw. s.v.) and most others. See Spanheim, Hist. Job, 4:10 sq.; Buddei Hist. N.T. 1, 370; Carpzov, Introd. 2, 42; Miller, De Terra Jobi, in the Thes. Vet. Test. 1, 540; Fries, in the Stud. u. Krit. 1854, vol. 2; and the commentaries on Job. SEE ARABIA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Uz
fertile land. (1.) The son of Aram, and grandson of Shem (Gen. 10:23; 1 Chr. 1:17).
(2.) One of the Horite “dukes” in the land of Edom (Gen. 36:28).
(3.) The eldest son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother (Gen. 22:21, R.V.).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Uz
UZ, or more correctly Huz (Gen 22:21). A country and a people near the Sabeans and the Chaldees (Job 1:1; Job 1:15; Job 1:17); accessible to the Temanites, the Shuhites (Job 2:11), and the Buzites (Job 32:2). The Edomites once possessed it (Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21). Suited for sheep, oxen, asses, and camels (Job 1:3). From an inscription of Esarhaddon it appears there were in central Arabia, beyond the jebel Shomer, about the modern countries of upper and lower Kaseem, two regions, Bazu and Khazu, answering to Buz and Huz. Uz therefore was in the middle of northern Arabia, not far from the famous district of the Nejd. Ptolemy mentions the Aesitae (related to “Uz”) as in the northern part of Arabia Deserta, near Babylon and the Euphrates. The name occurs
(1) in Gen 10:23 as son of Aram and grandson (as “son” means in 1Ch 1:17) of Shem;
(2) as son of Nahor by Milcah (Gen 22:21);
(3) as son of Dishan and grandson of Seir (Gen 36:28). Evidently the more ancient and northerly members of the Aramaic family coalesced with some of the later Abrahamids holding a central position in Mesopotamia, and subsequently with those still later, the Edomites of the S.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Uz
UZ.1. A son of Aram [Note: ram Aramaic.] , grandson of Shem (Gen 10:23 and 1Ch 1:17 [in emended text]). 2. A son of Nahor (Gen 22:21, AV [Note: Authorized Version.] Huz), whose descendants are placed in Aram-naharaim (Gen 24:10). 3. One of the Horites in the land of Edom (Gen 36:28 [v. 21 and v. 30], 1Ch 1:42). 4. A region which is called the dwelling-place of the daughter of Edom (Lam 4:21). 5. A district containing a number of kings, situated between Philistia and Egypt, or, with a different pointing of the consonants of one word, between Philistia and the country of the Bedouin (Jer 25:20 : the name not in LXX [Note: Septuagint.] ). 6. Jobs country (Job 1:1). As the first three are probably tribal designations, all may be regarded as geographical terms. It is not certain that they all refer to the same region. Nos. 1 and 2 seem to point to Mesopotamia. Nos. 3 and 4, and perhaps 5, indicate Edom or its neighbourhood. The locality of No. 6 is obscure. Ancient tradition is threefold. In LXX [Note: Septuagint.] of Job 42:19 Uz is affirmed, on the authority of the Syriac book, to lie on the borders of lduma and Arabia. In v. 23 it is located on the borders of the Euphrates. Josephus (Ant. I. vi. 4) associates the Uz of No. 1 with Damascus and Trachonitis. The evidence of the Book of Job itself about its heros home seems to favour the neighbourhood of Edom or N. Arabia. Teman (Job 2:11) was an Edomite district containing the city of Bozrah (Amo 1:12), and Eliphaz was an Edomite name (Gen 36:4). The Sabans (Job 1:15; Job 6:19) were a S. Arabian people who had settlements in the north. Tema (Job 6:19) lay in N. Arabia, about 250 miles S.E. of Edom. The description of Job, however, as one of the children of the East (Job 1:3) is most naturally understood to refer to the east of Palestine. The cuneiform inscriptions have a name Uzzai, which has been identified with Uz, but the identification is extremely uncertain.
Modern tradition, which can be traced back to early Christian times, locates Job in the Hauran, where the German explorer J. G. Wetzstein found a monastery of Job, a tomb and fountain and stone of Job, and small round stones called worms of Job. Another German explorer, Glaser, finds Uz in W. Arabia, at a considerable distance to the N.W. of Medina. Decision at present is unattainable, both on the general question of the signification of Uz in OT and on the special question of its meaning in the Book of Job. All that can be said is that the name points to the E. and S.E. of Palestine, and that the Book of Job appears to represent its hero as living in the neighbourhood of the Arabian or Syro-Arabian desert.
W. Taylor Smith.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Uz
This was the land made memorable by the dwelling of Job. The name seems to be taken from Hetz, counsel.
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Uz (1)
uz (, uc, , ‘erec uc; , Os, , Ox, , Austis):
Biblical Data:
(1) In Gen 10:23 Uz is the oldest son of Aram and grandson of Shem, while in 1Ch 1:17 Uz is the son of Shem. Septuagint inserts a passage which supplies this lacking name. As the tables of the nations in Gen 10 are chiefly geographical and ethnographical, Uz seems to have been the name of a district or nation colonized by or descended from Semites of the Aramean tribe or family.
(2) The son of Nahor by Milcah, and older brother of Buz (Gen 2:21). Here the name is doubtless personal and refers to an individual who was head of a clan or tribe kindred to that of Abraham.
(3) A son of Dishan, son of Seir the Horite (Gen 36:28), and personal name of a Horite or perhaps of mixed Horite and Aramean blood.
(4) The native land and home of Job (Job 1:1), and so situated as to be in more or less proximity to the tribe of the Temanites (Job 2:11), the Shuhites (Job 2:11), the Naamathites (Job 2:11), the Buzites (Job 32:2), and open to the inroads of the Chaldeans (Job 1:17), and the Sabeans (Job 1:15 the Revised Version (British and American)), as well as exposed to the great Arabian Desert (Job 1:19). See the next article.
(5) A kingdom of some importance somewhere in Southern Syria and not far from Judea, having a number of kings (Jer 25:20).
(6) A kingdom, doubtless the same as that of Jer 25:20 and inhabited by or in subjection to the Edomites (Lam 4:21), and hence not far from Edom.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Uz (2)
(, uc; Septuagint , Austis; Vulgate (Jerome’s Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) Ausitis): The home of the patriarch Job (Job 1:1; Jer 25:20, all the kings of the land of Uz; Lam 4:21, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz). The land of Uz was, no doubt, the pasturing-ground inhabited by one of the tribes of that name, if indeed there be more than one tribe intended. The following are the determining data occurring in the Book of Job. The country was subject to raids by Chaldeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15, Job 1:17); Job’s three friends were a Temanite, a Naamathite and a Shuhite (Job 2:11); Elihu was a Buzite (Job 32:2); and Job himself is called one of the children of the East (Kedhem). The Chaldeans (kasdm, descendants of Chesed, son of Nahor, Gen 22:22) inhabited Mesopotamia; a branch of the Sabeans also appears to have taken up its abode in Northern Arabia (see SHEBA). Teman (Gen 36:11) is often synonymous with Edom. The meaning of the designation amathite is unknown, but Shuah was a son of Keturah the wife of Abraham (Gen 25:2), and so connected with Nahor. Shuah is identified with Suhu, mentioned by Tiglath-pileser I as lying one day’s journey from Carchemish; and a land of Uzza is named by Shalmaneser II as being in the same neighborhood. Buz is a brother of Uz (Huz, Gen 22:21) and son of Nahor. Esar-haddon, in an expedition toward the West, passed through Bazu and Hazu, no doubt the same tribes. Abraham sent his children, other than Isaac (so including Shuah), eastward to the land of Kedhem (Gen 25:6). These factors point to the land of Uz as lying somewhere to the Northeast of Palestine. Tradition supports such a site. Josephus says Uz founded Trachonitis and Damascus (Ant., I, vi, 4). Arabian tradition places the scene of Job s sufferings in the Hauran at Deir Eiyub (Job’s monastery) near Nawa. There is a spring there, which. he made to flow by striking the rock with his foot (Koran 38 41), and his tomb. The passage in the Koran is, however, also made to refer to Job’s Well. Compare JERUSALEM.
Literature.
Talmud of Jerusalem (French translation by M. Schwab, VII, 289) contains a discussion of the date of Job; Le Strange, Palestine under the Moslems, 220-23, 427, 515.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Uz
Uz, a region and tribe named in Job 1:1; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21; now generally supposed to have been situated in the south of Arabia Deserta, between Idumea, Palestine, and the Euphrates.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Uz
1. Son of Aram, a son of Shem. Gen 10:23; 1Ch 1:17.
2. Son of Dishan, a son of Seir. Gen 36:28; 1Ch 1:42.
3. The native land of Job, perhaps the district peopled by the descendants of one of the above, or of Huz the son of Nahor. Job 1:1; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21. It is supposed to have been in the south-east of Palestine towards Arabia Deserta, which would lie open to attacks from the Sabeans and the Chaldeans.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Uz
H5780
1. Son of Aram
Gen 10:23; 1Ch 1:17
2. Son of Nahor, called Huz
Gen 22:21
3. Son of Dishan
Gen 36:28; 1Ch 1:42
4. A country of unknown location:
– Home of Job
Job 1:1
– Prophecies concerning
Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Uz
Uz (z), light sandy soil? 1. A region and tribe in the northeastern part of Arabia deserta, between the Euphrates, Palestine, and Idumea, probably including part of Bashan; called by Ptolemy Ausitis. Job was an inhabitant of “the land of Uz,” which was probably an extensive district, and subject to the Edomites. Job 1:1; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21. 2. A son of Aram. Gen 10:23; 1Ch 1:17. 3. The son of Dishan, the Horite. Gen 36:28; 1Ch 1:42.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Uz
LAND OF, the country of Job. As there were three persons of this name, namely, the son of Aram, the son of Nahor, and the grandson of Seir the Horite, commentators are divided in their opinion as to the situation of the country meant by the land of Uz. Bochart, Spanheim, Calmet, Wells, and others, place it in Arabia Deserta. Michaelis places it in the valley of Damascus; which city was, in fact, built by Uz, the grandson of Shem. Archbishop Magee, Bishop Lowth, Dr. Hales, Dr. Good, and others, with more reason, fix the scene of the history of Job in Idumea. This is also the opinion of Mr. Horne, who refers for a confirmation of it to Lam 4:21, where Uz is expressly said to be in Edom; and to Jer 49:7-8; Jer 49:20; Eze 25:13; Amo 1:11-12; Oba 1:8-9, where both Teman and Dedan are described as inhabitants of Edom. In effect, says Mr. Horne, nothing is clearer than that the history of an inhabitant of Idumea is the subject of the poem which bears the name of Job, and that all the persons introduced into it were Idumeans, dwelling in Idumea, in other words, Edomite Arabs.