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# עוּץ

Biblical Hebrew

**Uz** — 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

Uz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5d5_5bc_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוּץ²: pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5d5_5bc_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. m. (eldest) ‘son’ of Aramaic Gn 10:23 (P), = ‘son’ of Shem 1 Ch 1:17, 𝔊 Ως, 𝔊L Ch Ουζ. eldest ‘son’ of Naḥor Gn 22:21 (J), A Ωξ, 𝔊L Ωζ. Edomite name Gn 36:28 = 1 Ch 1:42, 𝔊 Ως, 𝔊L Ους. loc. (= 1. a, b, poss. also c), מַלְכֵי אֶרֶץ הָעוּץ Je 25:20 (𝔊 om.); בְּאֶרֶץ־עוּץ Jb 1:1 (home of Job), 𝔊 Αυσιτις; La 4:21 (del. עוּץ 𝔊 cf. Bu and reff.); on Uz as vague name for E. country v. especially Bu ix. f.; DlPa259, ZKF ii. 87 ff. puts in Ḥauran, or N. (NE.) therefrom, = Assyrian Uṣṣu, but dub. With name עוּץ RSK 261 cp. Arabic n.pr. div. عَوْض,, so WeHeid. 2, 146; against this NöZMG xl (1886), 183 f., but v. reply RSSem i. 43.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Uz (2); Uz (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.21/#tree)

שִׂ֤ישִׂי וְשִׂמְחִי֙ בַּת־אֱד֔וֹם יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּאֶ֣רֶץ ע֑וּץ גַּם־עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ תַּעֲבָר־כּ֔וֹס תִּשְׁכְּרִ֖י וְתִתְעָרִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* exult and rejoice O.daughter of.Edom \[who\].dwells in the.land of.Uz also to you it.will.pass.on a.cup you.will.become.drunk and you.will.make.yourself.naked

*JPS 1917:* Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass over unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

[Job 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.1.1/#tree)

אִ֛ישׁ הָיָ֥ה בְאֶֽרֶץ־ע֖וּץ אִיּ֣וֹב שְׁמ֑וֹ וְהָיָ֣ה ׀ הָאִ֣ישׁ הַה֗וּא תָּ֧ם וְיָשָׁ֛ר וִירֵ֥א אֱלֹהִ֖ים וְסָ֥ר מֵרָֽע׃

*Word for word:* a.man he.was in the.land of.Uz \[was\].Job name his and he.was the man (the) that blameless and upright and fearing (of).God and turning.aside from evil

*JPS 1917:* THERE was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was whole-hearted and upright, and one that feared God, and shunned evil.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5d5_5bc_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5d5_5bc_5e5/): 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).