uz Summary and Overview

fertile land. (1.) The son of Aram, and grandson of Shem (Gen. 10:23; 1 Chr. 1:17). (2.) One of the Horite "dukes" in the land of Edom (Gen. 36:28). (3.) The eldest son of Nahor, Abraham's brother (Gen. 22:21, R.V.).

(wooded). 1. A son of Aram, #Ge 10:23; 1Ch 1:17| end consequently a grand son of Shem. (B.C. 2400-2300.) 2. A son of Nahor by Milcah. #Ge 22:21| Authorized Version, Huz. (B.C. about 1900.) 3. A son of Dishan, and grandson of Seir. #Ge 36:28| (B.C. after 1800.) 4. The country in which Job lived. #Job 1:1| As far as we can gather, "the land of Uz" lay either east or southeast of Israel, #Job 1:3| adjacent to the Sabaeans and the Chaldaeans, #Job 1:15,17| consequently north of the southern Arabians and west of the Euphrates; and, lastly, adjacent to the Edomites of Mount Seir, who at one period occupied Uz, probably as conquerors, #La 4:21| and whose troglodyte habits are described in #Job 30:6,7| From the above data we infer that the land of Uz corresponds to the Arabia Deserta of classical geography, at all events to so much of it as lies north of the 30th parallel of latitude.

UZ (fruitful in trees). 1. A son of Aram, and grandson of Shem. Gen 10:23; 1 Chr 1:17. 2. A son of Dishan, and grandson of Seir. Gen 36:28. UZ, THE LAND OF (fertile land). Uz, or, more correctly, "Huz," was the country of Job. Job 1:1. It is mentioned in the ethnographical tables. Gen 10:23, and it was settled by a son of Aram. Comp. 1 Chr 1:17. Job was "the greatest of all the men of the East" - in Hebrew, Bene-Kedem, the people who dwelt in Arabia. Job 1:3, Job 1:15-17. Uz is grouped with Egypt, Philistia, and Moab, Jer 25:20, and with Edom. Jer Lam, 4:21. Situation. - The position of the land of Uz has been a subject of much dispute. According to Josephus, Uz was the father of the inhabitants of Damascus and Trachonitis. Many traditions put it at Orfah, on the Euphrates. See Ur. Near the Haran-gate in that city is "Job's well," which is a sacred shrine to the people because the patriarch drank of its waters. Porter found many traditions of Job in the Hauran, and numerous places named after the patriarch. The land of Uz seems most likely to have been in general that portion of Arabia Deserta east of Edom and south of Trachonitis, extending indefinitely toward the Euphrates.

UZ, or more correctly Huz (Genesis 22:21). A country and a people near the Sabeans and the Chaldees (Job 1:1; Job 1:15; Job 1:17); accessible to the Temanites, the Shuhites (Job 2:11), and the Buzites (Job 32:2). The Edomites once possessed it (Jeremiah 25:20; Lamentations 4:21). Suited for sheep, oxen, asses, and camels (Job 1:3). From an inscription of Esarhaddon it appears there were in central Arabia, beyond the jebel Shomer, about the modern countries of upper and lower Kaseem, two regions, Bazu and Khazu, answering to Buz and Huz. Uz therefore was in the middle of northern Arabia, not far from the famous district of the Nejd. Ptolemy mentions the Aesitae (related to "Uz") as in the northern part of Arabia Deserta, near Babylon and the Euphrates. The name occurs (1) in Genesis 10:23 as son of Aram and grandson (as "son" means in 1 Chronicles 1:17) of Shem; (2) as son of Nahor by Milcah (Genesis 22:21); (3) as son of Dishan and grandson of Seir (Genesis 36:28). Evidently the more ancient and northerly members of the Aramaic family coalesced with some of the later Abrahamids holding a central position in Mesopotamia, and subsequently with those still later, the Edomites of the S.