Hebrew word · H938

בּוּז

buz

Buz

A personal name and a tribal or regional name. Jeremiah 25:23 lists Buz with Dedan and Tema, oasis peoples of north-west Arabia. Job 32:2 has 'Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite'. A man named Buz also appears in 1 Chronicles 5:14.

Appears 3 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.22.21;

son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Milcah (H4435);

brother of: Uz (H5780H), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Bethuel (H1328A);

half-brother of: Tebah (H2875), Gaham (H1514), Tahash (H8477) and Maacah (H4601)

§ Buz = "contempt"

1) second son of Nahor, Abraham's nephew

2) a Gadite

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Genesis 22:21

Range of meaning

A personal name and a tribal or regional name. Jeremiah 25:23 lists Buz with Dedan and Tema, oasis peoples of north-west Arabia. Job 32:2 has 'Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite'. A man named Buz also appears in 1 Chronicles 5:14.

Against the English

Translations simply transliterate the name. There is no drift.

Used elsewhere in the period

The Assyrian king Esarhaddon (7th century BC) records a campaign against the lands of Bāzu and Ḫazû in the Arabian desert. Many scholars identify these with Buz and with Hazo (Genesis 22:22), Buz's brother. The link is widely accepted but not certain.

Where it appears

Genesis · 1

  1. Genesis 22:21 בּ֣וּז Buz

    Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

    Here: The second son. Elsewhere Buz is an Arabian tribe or region, listed with Dedan and Tema (Jeremiah 25:23). Elihu in Job is called 'the Buzite' (Job 32:2). The name is spelled like the Hebrew word for 'contempt', but the text does not play on this.

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 5:14 בּֽוּז׃ Buz

    These were the sons of Abihail son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz.

Jeremiah · 1

  1. Jeremiah 25:23 בּ֔וּז Buz

    Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair;

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