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Strong's #5780 - עוּץ
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Uz = “wooded”
1) son of Aram and grandson of Seth (noun proper masculine)
2) son of Nahor by Milcah (noun proper masculine)
3) an Edomite, son of Dishan and grandson of Seir (noun proper masculine)
4) the country of Job; probably east and southeast of Palestine somewhere in the Arabian desert (noun proper locative)
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b. eldest 'son' of Nahor Genesis 22:21 (J), A Ωξ, ᵐ5 L Ωζ.
c. Edomite name Genesis 36:28 = 1 Chronicles 1:42, ᵐ5 Ως, ᵐ5 L Ους
2. location (= 1. a, b, possibly also
c), מַלְכֵי אֶרֶץ הָעוּץ Jeremiah 25:20 (ᵐ5 omitted); בְּאֶרֶץעֿוּץ Job 1:1 (home of Job), ᵐ5 Αυσιτις; Lamentations 4:21 (strike out עוּץᵐ5 compare Bu and references); on Uz as vague name for east country see especially Bu ix. f.; Dl Pa 259, ZKF ii. 87 ff. puts in Hauran, or north (northeast) therefrom, = Assyrian Uƒƒu, but dubious with name עוּץ RS K 261 compare Arabic proper name, of divinity. 
, so We Heid. 2,146; against this Nö ZMG xi (1886), 183f., but see reply RS Sem i. 43.
עוּץ to consult, i.q. יָעַץ; only found in imp. עֻצוּ Judges 19:30; Isaiah 8:13. Hence יְעוּץ pr.n.
II. עוּץ i.q. עוּט, غاط, غاص to impress, to im-merse oneself, e. g. the foot into sand; whence غُوطَةُ soft ground, sandy and fruitful. Hence
עוּץ (“soft and Sandy earth), [Uz], pr.n. Ausitis, Ausitœ (LXX. Αὐσῖτις, Αὐσῖται), pr.n. of a region and tribe in the northern part of the Arabian desert (بدية الشام) between Palestine, Idumæa, and the Euphrates; called by Ptolemy, verse 19, Αἰσῖται (unless this should be corrected to Αὐσῖται), Job 1:1 (compare verse Job 1:3); Jeremiah 25:20 and Lamentations 4:21 (a passage which is to be understood of the Edomites living in Ausitis). As to the origin of the nation, different accounts are given in different places; see Genesis 10:23, 22:21 36:28 [but Scripture cannot be self-contradictory]; compare Vater’s Comment on the Pentat., vol. i. p. 152. See also the discussions respecting the site of the land of Uz in Bochart, Phaleg. ii. 8; J. D. Michaëlis in Spicileg. ii. 26; Ilgen, De Jobi Natura et Indole, p. 95:96; Roseum. Scholiis in Job. Prolegomm. § 5; Eichhorn, Einleit. in das A. T. § 639. [See also Forster’s Arabia.]
