Lexical Summary Uts: a son of Aram, also a son of Nahor, also an Edomite, also perhaps a district East of Pal Original Word: עוּץTransliteration: Uts Phonetic Spelling: (oots) Part of Speech: proper name; location Short Definition: a son of Aram, also a son of Nahor, also an Edomite, also perhaps a district East of Pal Meaning: Uz -- a son of Aram, also a son of Nahor, also an Edomite, also perhaps a district East of Palestine Strong's Concordance Uz Apparently from uwts; consultation; Uts, a son of Aram, also a Seirite, and the regions settled by them. -- Uz. see HEBREW uwts Brown-Driver-Briggs H5780. Uts עוּץ proper name 1. masculine a. (eldest) 'son' of Aram Genesis 10:23 (P), = 'son' of Shem 1 Chronicles 1:17, ᵐ5 Ως, ᵐ5L Chronicles Ουζ. b. eldest 'son' of Nahor Genesis 22:21 (J), A Ωξ, ᵐ5L Ωζ. c. Edomite name Genesis 36:28 = 1 Chronicles 1:42, ᵐ5 Ως, ᵐ5L Ους 2. location (= 1. a, b, possibly also c), הָעוּץ אֶרֶץ מַלְכֵי Jeremiah 25:20 (ᵐ5 omitted); בְּאֶרֶץעֿוּץ Job 1:1 (home of Job), ᵐ5 Αυσιτις; Lamentations 4:21 (strike out ᵐ5 עוּץ 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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