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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Buz (Buz= near Dedan (Dedan@Isa.21.13-Ezk=H1719A))

Buz's name means “contempt” or “scorn.” The first Buz was the second son of Nahor, Abraham's brother, and an ancestor of Elihu, one of Job's counselors (Genesis 22:21; Job 32:2).

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Buz's name means “contempt” or “scorn.” The first Buz was the second son of Nahor, Abraham's brother, and an ancestor of Elihu, one of Job's counselors (Genesis 22:21; Job 32:2).

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Buz's name means “contempt” or “scorn.” The first Buz was the second son of Nahor, Abraham's brother, and an ancestor of Elihu, one of Job's counselors (Genesis 22:21; Job 32:2). A second Buz was a leading man of the tribe of Gad (1 Chronicles 5:14). The name is also attached to a region in Arabia denounced alongside Dedan and Tema in Jeremiah's oracle against foreign nations (Jeremiah 25:23), likely named for the same family line.

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The word

H938

Where it appears
  • Jeremiah 25:23

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