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Strong's #5780 - עוּץ
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- Uz = "wooded"
- n pr m
- son of Aram and grandson of Seth
- son of Nahor by Milcah
- an Edomite, son of Dishan and grandson of Seir
- n pr loc
- the country of Job; probably east and southeast of Palestine somewhere in the Arabian desert
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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.]
