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# בּוּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H938

**Buz** — used 3 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

Buz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/938/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בּוּז³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/938/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. Assyrian n.pr.loc. Bâzu DlPa 307; ZK 1885, 93 f.) 2nd son of Nahor, Abraham’s brother Gn 22:21 J; = tribe named with דְּדָן & תֵּימָא Je 25:23. a Gadite 1 Ch 5:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: Buz (2); of Buz (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 22:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.22.21/#tree)

אֶת־ע֥וּץ בְּכֹר֖וֹ וְאֶת־בּ֣וּז אָחִ֑יו וְאֶת־קְמוּאֵ֖ל אֲבִ֥י אֲרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (et) Uz firstborn his and (et) Buz brother his and (et) Kemuel the.father of.Aram

*JPS 1917:* Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram;

[Jeremiah 25:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.25.23/#tree)

וְאֶת־דְּדָ֤ן וְאֶת־תֵּימָא֙ וְאֶת־בּ֔וּז וְאֵ֖ת כָּל־קְצוּצֵ֥י פֵאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Dedan and (et) Tema and (et) Buz and (et) all \[those.who.are\].cut.off of.\[the\].corner

*JPS 1917:* Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair polled;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/938.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/938/): 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).