Buz בּוּז

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Buz
בּוּז
Transliterationbuz
Strong's numberH938 (H0938G, H0938H, H0938I)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechname of a man
GlossBuz
Occurrences3 in 3 verses
Most frequent inGenesis (1)

Buz (Hebrew בּוּז, Strong's H938) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Buz”. It occurs 3 times.

Definition

H0938G: Buz

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, only mentioned at Gen.22.21;
son of: Nahor (H5152H) and Milcah (H4435);
brother of: Uz (H5780H), Kemuel (H7055), Chesed (H3777), Hazo (H2375), Pildash (H6394), Jidlaph (H3044) and Bethuel (H1328A);
half-brother of: Tebah (H2875), Gaham (H1514), Tahash (H8477) and Maacah (H4601)
§ Buz = "contempt"
1) second son of Nahor, Abraham's nephew
2) a Gadite

H0938H: Buz

A man of the tribe of Gad living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.5.14;
father of: Jahdo (H3163)
§ Buz = "contempt"
1) second son of Nahor, Abraham's nephew
2) a Gadite

H0938I: Buz

§ Buz = "contempt"
a place in Arabia

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVbuz (3)
BSBbuz (3)

Verses

Every verse with Buz, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

1 Chronicles

Jeremiah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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