1. Uz (place/personal name) — Proper noun designating Uz (עוּץ), used both as a personal name in genealogies (Gen 10:23, 22:21; 1 Chr 1:17, 42) and as the homeland of Job (Job 1:1) and a region mentioned in prophetic oracles (Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21). All three clusters refer to the same entity across syntactic variation: with conjunction or construct forms (S123010), bare nominative (S123011), and with article (S123012). Multilingual translations uniformly render it as one toponym or personal name: Spanish 'Uz / Uts / Utz,' Hindi 'ऊज़ / ऊस,' Arabic 'عُوصَ / عُوصُ,' Korean '우스,' Swahili 'Usi / Utsi.' Whether the personal ancestor and the geographical region are the same referent is a historical question, but lexicographically they share a single lemma entry. 8×
AR["عوص","عُوصَ","عُوصُ","وَ-عوص"]·ben["উস","উসের","উৎস","ঊষ","ও-ঊষ"]·DE["Uz","[העוץ]","[ועוץ]","[עוץ]"]·EN["Uts","Utz","Uz","and-Uts","of-Uts"]·FR["Uts","Uz","[העוץ]","[ועוץ]","[עוץ]"]·heb["ה-עוץ","ו-עוץ","עוץ"]·HI["उतस","ऊज","ऊज़","ऊज़-के","ऊस","ऊस-के","और-ऊज़"]·ID["Us","dan-Us"]·IT["Uz","[העוץ]","[ועוץ]","[עוץ]"]·jav["Us","Uz","lan-Us"]·KO["그-와-우스","우스","우스-의","우스와","우스의"]·PT["'Uts","Uts","e-'Uts"]·RU["Уц","Уца","и-Уц"]·ES["Uts","Utz","Uz","y-Uts"]·SW["Usi","Utsi","na-Usi","ya-Usi"]·TR["Uts","Uts'un","Uz","Uz'u","Uz'un","ve-Uts"]·urd["عوص","عوص-کی","عوض","و-عوض"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† עוּץ n. pr. 1. m. a. (eldest) ‘son’ of Aramaic Gn 10:23 (P), = ‘son’ of Shem 1 Ch 1:17, 𝔊 Ως, 𝔊L Ch Ουζ. b. eldest ‘son’ of Naḥor Gn 22:21 (J), A Ωξ, 𝔊L Ωζ. c. Edomite name Gn 36:28 = 1 Ch 1:42, 𝔊 Ως, 𝔊L Ους. 2. loc. (= 1. a, b, poss. also c), מַלְכֵי אֶרֶץ הָעוּץ Je 25:20 (𝔊 om.); בְּאֶרֶץ־עוּץ Jb 1:1 (home of Job), 𝔊 Αυσιτις; La 4:21 (del. עוּץ 𝔊 cf. Bu and reff.); on Uz as vague name…