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# עוּץ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5780

**Uz** — used 5 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/1506/5780/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עוּץ²: pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5780/#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, 5 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Uz (3); \[were\] Uz (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.28/#tree)

אֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי־דִישָׁ֖ן ע֥וּץ וַאֲרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.sons of.Dishan Uz and Aran

*JPS 1917:* These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

[Genesis 10:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.23/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י אֲרָ֑ם ע֥וּץ וְח֖וּל וְגֶ֥תֶר וָמַֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Aram \[were\].Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5780.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5780/): 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).