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# בּוּזִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H940

**Buzite** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Buzite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/940/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּזִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/940/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. ( = בעזי from בֹּעַז according to J. DerenbourgRÉJ i. 6) of Elihu’s father. Jb 32:2, 6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Buzite (2).

## In the verses

[Job 32:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.2/#tree)

וַיִּ֤חַר אַ֨ף ׀ אֱלִיה֣וּא בֶן־בַּרַכְאֵ֣ל הַבּוּזִי֮ מִמִּשְׁפַּ֪חַ֫ת רָ֥ם בְּ֭אִיּוֹב חָרָ֣ה אַפּ֑וֹ עַֽל־צַדְּק֥וֹ נַ֝פְשׁ֗וֹ מֵאֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.burned the.anger of.Elihu the.son of.Barakel the Buzite from the.clan of.Ram on Job it.burned anger his because justified he self his more than.God

*JPS 1917:* Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

[Job 32:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.32.6/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַן ׀ אֱלִיה֖וּא בֶן־בַּֽרַכְאֵ֥ל הַבּוּזִ֗י וַיֹּ֫אמַ֥ר צָ֘עִ֤יר אֲנִ֣י לְ֭יָמִים וְאַתֶּ֣ם יְשִׁישִׁ֑ים עַל־כֵּ֖ן זָחַ֥לְתִּי וָֽאִירָ֓א ׀ מֵחַוֺּ֖ת דֵּעִ֣י אֶתְכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Elihu the.son of.Barakel the Buzite and he.said \[am\].young I to days and you \[are\].aged therefore I.was.anxious and I.was.afraid from declaring knowledge my you

*JPS 1917:* And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I held back, and durst not declare you mine opinion.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/940.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/940/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).