Buz

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("contempt".)

1. Second son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother ( Genesis 22:21). Kennel was the father of Aram, i.e. Syria. Elihu ( Job 32:2) is called "the son of Barachal the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram" (i.e. Aram); he therefore probably was descended from Buz. The family settled in Arabia Deserta, for Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 25:23), in denouncing judgments against Buz, associates the tribe with Tema and Dedan.

2. The name also occurs in Gad's genealogy ( 1 Chronicles 5:14).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

A district in Arabia Petrea ( Jeremiah 25:23 ).

Copyright Statement These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography Information Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Buz'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/buz.html. 1897.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BUZ . 1 . The second son of Nahor and Milcah, and nephew of Abraham (  Genesis 22:21 ). Elihu, one of the friends of Job (  Job 32:2 ), is called a Buzite , and may have belonged to a tribe of that name against which judgments are denounced by Jeremiah (  Jeremiah 25:23 ). 2 . A man of the tribe of Gad (  1 Chronicles 5:14 ).

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. Son of Mileah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.  Genesis 22:21 . The name of BAZU has been found in the Assyrian inscriptions, which is thought to refer to the settlement of Buz in Northern Arabia.

2. One of the tribe of Gad.  1 Chronicles 5:14 .

3. Name of a place supposed to be in Arabia.  Jeremiah 25:23 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Buz. (Contempt).

1. The second son of Milcah and Nahor.  Genesis 22:21. Elihu, "the Buzite," was probably a descendant of Buz.

2. A name occurring in the genealogies of the tribe of Gad.  1 Chronicles 5:14.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Son of Nahor and Milcah, and ancestor of the Buzites, who lived in Mesopotamia or Ram, and afterwards perhaps in Arabia Deserta,  Genesis 22:21;  Job 32:2;  Jeremiah 25:23 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 22:21 2 1 Chronicles 5:14 3 Jeremiah 25:23

Webster's Dictionary

(v. & n.) See Buzz.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. id. בּוּז, Contempt ), the name of two men.

1. (Sept. Βαύζ, but ῾Ρῶς in  Jeremiah 25:23.) The second son of Nahor and Milcah, and brother of Huz ( Genesis 22:21). B.C. 2050. Elihu, the Buzite (q.v.), one of Job's friends, who is distinguished as an Aramaean or Syrian ( Job 32:2), was doubtless descended from this Buz. Judgments are denounced upon the tribe of Buz by Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 25:23); and from the context this tribe appears to have been located in Arabia Deserta, being mentioned in connection with Tema and Dedan: this may render it uncertain whether the descendants of Nahor's son are intended, although a migration south of the Euphrates is by no means unlikely, and had perhaps already occurred in the time of Elihu. Some connect the territory of Buz with Busan, a Roman fort mentioned in Amm. Marc. 18:10, and others with Basta in Arabia Petraea (see Schwarz, Palest. p. 209), which, however, has only the first letter in common with it. (See Arabia).

The paronomasia (as found in both the above connections) of the names Huz or Uz and Buz is by no means so apparent in the Hebrew (עוּוֹ, בוּז ); but it is quite in the Oriental taste to give to relations these rhyming appellatives; comp. Ishua and Ishui ( Genesis 46:17), Mehujael and Methusael (Genesis 4), Uzziel and Uzzi ( 1 Chronicles 7:7); and among the Arabians, Harut and Marut, the rebel angels, Hasan and Hoseyn, the sons of All, etc. The Koran abounds in such homoioteleuta, and so pleasing are they to the Arabs that they even call Cain and Abel Kabil and Habil (Weil's Bibl. Legends, p. 23; also Southey's Notes To Thalaba ), or Habil and Habid (see Stanley, p. 413). The same idiom is found in Mahratta and the modern languages of the East. See UZ.

2. (Sept. Βούζ . r. Ἀχιβούζ .) The father of Jahdo, of the tribe of Gad ( 1 Chronicles 5:14). B.C. long ante 1093.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Buz, son of Nahor and Milcah, and brother of Huz ( Genesis 22:21). Elihu, one of Job's friends, who is distinguished as an Aramaean or Syrian ( Job 32:2), was doubtless descended from this Buz. Judgments are denounced upon the tribe of Buz by Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 25:23; and from the context this tribe appears to have been located in Arabia Deserta.