Senses
1. Job (proper name) — The proper name of the righteous patriarch from the land of Uz, central figure of the Book of Job, known for enduring suffering and divine testing. All 58 occurrences refer to a single individual across various grammatical contexts — nominative (eng: Job, spa: Job/Iyov, arb: أَيُّوبُ, hin: अय्यूब, kor: 욥, swa: Ayubu), with preposition beth 'against Job' (arb: بِ–أَيّوبَ, kor: 욥–을–향해), and with preposition kaph 'like Job' (arb: كَ–أَيّوبَ, swa: kama–Ayubu). These are purely syntactic inflectional variants of a single proper noun referent. 58×
AR["أَيُّوبَ","أَيُّوبُ"]·ben["ইয়োব","ইয়োবকে","ইয়োবের"]·DE["Hiob"]·EN["Iyov","Iyyov"]·FR["Job"]·heb["איוב"]·HI["अय्यूब","अय्यूब-के","अय्यूब-ने"]·ID["Ayub"]·IT["Giobbe"]·jav["Ayub"]·KO["욥","욥-이","욥을","욥의","욥이"]·PT["Iyyov"]·RU["Иов","Иова","Иову"]·ES["Iyov","Job"]·SW["Ayubu"]·TR["Eyyub","Eyyub'a","Eyyub'u","Eyyub'un","Eyyüb"]·urd["ایوب نے","ایوب-نے","ایّوب","ایّوب-نے","ایّوب-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
אִיּוֹב n.pr.m. Job (meaning unknown; Thes √ איב; obj. of enmity, cf. for pass. sense יִלּוֹד; Ew comp. Ara. أَوَّابٌ he who turns (to God); but cf. Di on 1:1; all dub. cf. LagBN 90) Jb 1:1, 5(×3), 8, 9, 14 + 48 textual Jb; Ez 14:14, 20.