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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Buz
The name means contempt. Nahor's second son carried it, and Jeremiah uses it for a people out in the desert.
The name means contempt. Nahor's second son carried it, and Jeremiah uses it for a people out in the desert.
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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- Jeremiah 25:23
