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title: עוּץ — Uz · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עוּץ (5780), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Uz. BDB 1906: pr. loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עוּץ

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«עוּץ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Uz** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 5780 · **BDB:** עוּץ²

### Glosses

Uz (3); \[were\].Uz (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Uz [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5780/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

pr. loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5780/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. m. (eldest) ‘son’ of Aramaic Gn 10:23 (P), = ‘son’ of Shem 1 Ch 1:17, 𝔊 Ως, 𝔊L Ch Ουζ. eldest ‘son’ of Naḥor Gn 22:21 (J), A Ωξ, 𝔊L Ωζ. Edomite name Gn 36:28 = 1 Ch 1:42, 𝔊 Ως, 𝔊L Ους. 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 for E. country v. especially Bu ix. f.; DlPa259, ZKF ii. 87 ff. puts in Ḥauran, or N. (NE.) therefrom, = Assyrian Uṣṣu, but dub. With name עוּץ RSK 261 cp. Arabic n.pr. div. عَوْض,, so WeHeid. 2, 146; against this NöZMG xl (1886), 183 f., but v. reply RSSem i. 43.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עוּץ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5780/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 36:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.28/)

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אֵ֥לֶּה בְנֵֽי־דִישָׁ֖ן ע֥וּץ וַאֲרָֽן׃

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.sons of.Dishan Uz and Aran

*JPS 1917:* These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

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[Genesis 10:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.23/)

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וּבְנֵ֖י אֲרָ֑ם ע֥וּץ וְח֖וּל וְגֶ֥תֶר וָמַֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Aram \[were\].Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

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