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    3 others in the registry answer to the name Uz. Every Uz in the Bible

    place

    Uz

    עוּץ

    Uz, a region mentioned in the Bible as the homeland of Job, possibly located in Edom or Arabia (Job.1.1; Jer. 25:20; Lam. 4:21).

    Where the story of Uz happens Where the gazetteer locates Uz, framed to them: Uz. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Uz
    Where the gazetteer locates Uz
    verses
    3
    first named
    Job 1:1
    last named
    Lamentations 4:21
    feature
    region
    coordinates
    31.00°N · 37.75°E
    region31.00°N · 37.75°E

    Wadi Sirhan (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Uz in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Uz is a region mentioned in the Bible, most prominently as the homeland of Job, the righteous man whose faith was tested through great suffering (Job.1.1). The exact location of Uz is uncertain, but it is believed to be situated east of the land of Israel and Edom, possibly in northern Arabia or southern Jordan. Job's story describes Uz as a place near the desert (Job.1.19) but also fertile for farming and raising livestock (Job.1.3, 14; 42:12). The people of Uz are referred to as "the people of the East" (Job.1.3), and the land was vulnerable to Chaldean raiding parties (Job.1.17). Uz is also mentioned in Jeremiah 25:20 among the nations that will drink the cup of God's wrath, and in Lamentations 4:21, where Edom is addressed as dwelling in the land of Uz. Some scholars propose that Uz may be a fictional place serving the story of Job rather than a physical land, with the name "Uz" in Hebrew meaning "counsel" or "advice."

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends of an edge always agree. Neither end of one reaches this entity.

    Not stated

    Nothing stands in a stated relation with this entity.

    The pattern

    Where Uz is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOB1 VERSEJEREMIAH–LAMENTATIONS2 VERSES17 books and 436 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOB1 VERSEJEREMIAH–LAMENTATIONS2 VERSES17 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Uz is named in 3 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.

    1. Job1 verse

      1:1

    2. Jeremiah1 verse

      25:20

    3. Lamentations1 verse

      4:21

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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