"Land of Uz The Land of Uz () is a location mentioned in the Old Testament, most prominently in the Book of Job, which begins, ""There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job"". Scholarly consensus has not identified any actual country which corresponds to Uz. According to the Dead Sea document, The War Scroll, the land of Uz is mentioned as existing somewhere beyond the Euphrates possibly in relation to Aram. In Column 2 verse 11, it is noted, ""they shall fight against the rest of the sons of Aramea: Uz, Hul, Togar, and Mesha,"
"who are beyond the Euphrates."" Uz is sometimes identified with the kingdom of Edom, roughly in the area of modern-day southwestern Jordan and southern Israel. Lamentations 4:21 reads: ""Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz."" Other locations proposed for Uz include more southern Arabia, especially Dhofar, said to be the home of the original Arabs; Bashan in modern-day southern Syria/western Jordan; Arabia east of Petra, Jordan; and even modern-day Uzbekistan. The name Uz is mentioned several times in the Bible. In Genesis, Uz is the son of Aram, a direct descendant of"
"Zuzim (biblical people) According to the Hebrew Bible, the Zuzim or Zuzites (meaning ""restless"" or ""roaming"") were a tribe who lived in Ham, a land east of the Jordan River between Bashan and Moab. The Zuzim were conquered by the Elamite King Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:5). Many scholars identify the Zuzim with the Zamzummim (Deuteronomy 2:20), a tribe of the Rephaim living in the same region as the Zuzim and later occupied by the Ammonites. In Hebrew ""Zuz"" represents the root ""z'z"" which means, ""to move"" and is likely associated with the Ancient Egyptian ""s's"" meaning, ""to move on foot"" as"
"Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( , ""Kush"") was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the Biblical Nimrod mentioned in the ""Table of Nations"" in the Genesis 10:6 and I Chronicles 1:8. Cush is traditionally considered the eponymous ancestor of the people of the ""land of Cush,"" an ancient territory that is believed to have been located on either side or both sides of the Red Sea. As such, ""Cush"" is alternately identified"
"David, displeased because the Lord had killed Uzzah, called the place where this occurred Perez-uzzah, which means ""to burst out against Uzzah"". David was afraid to bring the ark any further, and placed it in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord then blessed Obed-edom and David went and brought up the ark of God into the city of David. Uzzah, son of Shimei, a Merarite. Uzzah According to the Tanakh, Uzzah or Uzza, meaning strength, was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant. Uzzah was the son of Abinadab,"
"name after his own name and the name of his father."" (Jubilees 11:3). The Talmud associated Ur with Warka (today identified as Uruk). In the New Testament, it is described indirectly at , as the ""land of the Chaldeans"". According to Islamic texts, the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) was thrown into the fire in Ur Kasdim. In the story, the temperature of the king's fire was reduced by God, saving the life of Ibrahim. While the Qur'an does not mention the king's name, Muslim commentators have assigned Nimrod as the king based on hadiths (narrations of the prophet Muhammad) Eusebius in"
"by the early 5th century BC. The demise of Ur was perhaps owing to drought, changing river patterns, and the silting of the outlet to the Persian Gulf. Ur is likely the city of Ur Kasdim mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the birthplace of the Jewish, Christian and Muslim patriarch Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic), traditionally believed to have lived some time in the 2nd millennium BC. There are however conflicting traditions and scholarly opinions identifying Ur Kasdim with the sites of Sanliurfa, Urkesh, Urartu or Kutha. Ur is mentioned four times in the Torah or Old Testament, with"
"Uzeir Uzeir (; ) is an Arab village in northern Israel. Located near Nazareth Illit in the Lower Galilee, it falls under the jurisdiction of al-Batuf Regional Council. In it had a population of . Findings from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods have been found in the village. It was mentioned in the Ottoman defter for the year 1555-6, as ""Mezraa"" land, (that is, cultivated land), called ""‘Uzayr"", located in the ""Nahiya"" of Tabariyya of the ""Liwa"" of Safad. The land was designated as Timar land. In 1799, a map from Napoleon's invasion by Pierre Jacotin showed the"
"except for circa 2100 via the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. The area of land known as Sumer, within Mesopotamia, had a settled population within the 5th millennia BCE. A seal from Sumer, (of ""Mudgala,"" ""Lord of Edin,"" ""Minister to Uruas"" ) shows the word Azu, which meant water-divinator (lit. water knower), and additionally, physician. Lord Mudgala was the son of Uruas the Khad, who was the first dynasty of Sumeria (via Phoenicia) of the fourth millennium BCE. Another artifact from Sumerian culture, a death amulet seal, shows the name Uzu-as' and is a resurrection amulet for the slave and seer"
"in the ""ssw"" or Shasu. The Shasu and Zuzim may be one and the same if one considers their close proximity to the Horites ""Kharu"" and Hebrews ""Habiru"" as they are described in Egyptian lists. Zuzim (biblical people) According to the Hebrew Bible, the Zuzim or Zuzites (meaning ""restless"" or ""roaming"") were a tribe who lived in Ham, a land east of the Jordan River between Bashan and Moab. The Zuzim were conquered by the Elamite King Chedorlaomer (Genesis 14:5). Many scholars identify the Zuzim with the Zamzummim (Deuteronomy 2:20), a tribe of the Rephaim living in the same region"
"Uzzah According to the Tanakh, Uzzah or Uzza, meaning strength, was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant. Uzzah was the son of Abinadab, in whose house the men of Kirjath-jearim placed the Ark when it was brought back from the land of the Philistines. With his brother Ahio, he drove the cart on which the ark was placed when David sought to bring it up to Jerusalem. When the oxen stumbled, Uzzah steadied the ark with his hand, in direct violation of the divine law, and he was immediately killed for his error."
"anyone who would kill him. Cain left God's presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Cain had a son, Enoch, and founded a city, and named it after Enoch. Enoch had a son Irad; and Irad had a son Mehujael; and Mehujael had a son Methushael; and Methushael had a son Lamech. The fourth reading (, ""aliyah"") ends here. In the short fifth reading (, ""aliyah""), Lamech took two wives: Adah and Zillah. Adah bore Jabal, the ancestor of those who dwell in tents and amidst herds, and Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the"
"Al Uzair, on the western bank of the Tigris, popularly believed to be the burial place of the biblical figure Ezra, the scribe of the Old Testament. Due to frequent embellishment works, not much of the original Ottoman period shrine has been preserved. The town is mostly Shia, but it has a sizable Mandaean and previously Jewish community. As many smaller rural towns in Iraq, dependent on an agrarian economy, Qalat Saleh is experiencing the inexorable population movements towards regional economic magnets. Since the mid-1950s, many families migrated to Amarah, Baghdad and Basra seeking better opportunities. Worsening living conditions and"
"where kings lived, for says of Pharaoh, ""his princes are at Zoan."" And in all of Israel, there was no more rocky ground than that at Hebron, which is why the Patriarchs buried their dead there, as reported in But rocky Hebron was still seven times as fertile as lush Zoan. Rab and Samuel equated the Amraphel of with the Nimrod whom describes as ""a mighty warrior on the earth,"" but the two differed over which was his real name. One held that his name was actually Nimrod, and calls him Amraphel because he ordered Abraham to be cast into"
"according to the ""Book of Aksum"", which Bruce asserts was revered throughout Abyssinia equally with the ""Kebra Nagast"". Scholars like Johann Michaelis and Rosenmuller have pointed out that the name ""Cush"" was applied to tracts of country on both sides of the Red Sea, in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) and Northeast Africa. Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( , ""Kush"") was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the Biblical Nimrod mentioned in the"
"that there was a later reburial of Uzziah here during the Second Temple Period. In two unprovenanced iconic stone seals from 1858 and 1863, the first is inscribed l’byw ‘bd / ‘zyw, ""belonging to ’Abiyah, minister of ‘Uziyah"" and the second (rev.) lšbnyw ‘ / bd ‘zyw, ""belonging to Shubnayah, minister of ‘Uziyah."" A major earthquake is referred to in the book of the prophet Amos. Amos dated his prophecy to ""two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel"" (Amos 1:1, NIV). Over 200 years later, the prophet"
"Uzziah Uzziah (; ""‘Uzzîyāhū"", meaning ""Yah is my strength""; ; ), also known as Azariah (; ; ), was a king of the ancient Kingdom of Judah, and one of Amaziah's sons. () Uzziah was 16 when he became king of Judah and reigned for 52 years. The first 24 years of his reign were as co-regent with his father, Amaziah. William F. Albright dated Uzziah's reign to 783 – 742 BC. Edwin R. Thiele's chronology has Uzziah becoming coregent with his father Amaziah in 792/791 BC, and sole ruler of Judah after his father's death in 768/767 BC. Uzziah"
"lived in Ur and was a nephew of Ibrahim (Abraham). He migrated with Ibrahim to Canaan and was commissioned as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He was commanded by Allah to go to the land of Sodom and Gomorrah to preach monotheism and to stop them from their lustful and violent acts. Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants, prompting Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. Though Lut left the city, his wife looked behind and was destroyed. In the Quran, surah (chapter) 26 Ash-Shu`arā' (The Poets) – Lot's wife is named in and mentioned by Jesus at"
"of Manasseh which settled east of the Jordan river, but its inhabitants, the Geshurites, could not be expelled (). Two of the Late Bronze Age Amarna Letters (EA 256 and EA 364) identify 'the land of Garu', as a disputed territory in the Golan between the city states of Hazor and Ashtaroth. Some scholars believe that this 'Garu' is identical with the biblical Geshur, although this is contested by others who content that it is based on a ""hypothetical and disputed assumption"". Some scholars believe the inscription on the broken statue of Shalmanazer III that describes cities captured by him"
"Uzal Uzal, in the Hebrew Bible, is a descendant of Joktan (Genesis 10:27 ; 1 Chronicles 1:21), whose settlements are clearly traced in the ancient name of Sana, the capital city of the Yemen. He was believed to be the founder of an Arabian tribe. Uzal was the sixth of thirteen sons of Joktan. As noted in Genesis 10:26 - 10:29, Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah and Obal and Abimael and Sheba and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. Occurring in a series of genealogies intended to trace"
"Aram, son of Shem Aram ( ""Aram"") is a son of Shem, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 of the Hebrew Bible, and the father of Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash or Meshech. The Book of Chronicles lists Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech as descendants of Shem, although without stating explicitly that Aram is the father of the other four. Aram is usually regarded as being the eponymous ancestor of the Aramaean people of Northern Mesopotamia and Syria. The name Aram (, ""Aram"") means etymologically ""height, high region"", according to Wilhelm Gesenius and ""the highland"" according"
"Ur of the Chaldees Ur Kaśdim ( ""ʾur kasdim""), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of the Israelite and Ismaelite patriarch Abraham. In 1862, Henry Rawlinson identified Ur Kaśdim with Tell el-Muqayyar, near Nasiriyah in southern Iraq. In 1927, Leonard Woolley excavated the site and identified it as a Sumerian archaeological site where the Chaldeans were to settle around the 9th century BCE. Recent archaeology work has continued to focus on the location in Nasiriyah, where the ancient Ziggurat of Ur is located. Other sites traditionally thought to"
"by an expedition from Zarahemla sent to discover their fate. ""The Record of Zeniff"" records the reigns of Zeniff, his son Noah and grandson Limhi. The timespan is approximately 75 years. According to the Book of Mormon, the prophet Lehi and his family left Jerusalem and travelled ""in the wilderness"" for a number of years before building a boat and sailing to ""the promised land"". The name of the land in which they first settled is not given (though perhaps it was called the land of Lehi). Following Lehi's death, his older sons, Laman and Lemuel, rebelled against their younger"
"for Edom, shows how important it must have been in their time. According some biblical scholars and commentators Teman was a city in the Land of Uz. In ""The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible"" it is written: """"Throughout almost the whole of Hebrew history Uz or Idumea was regarded by the Jews in the same light of elegance and accomplishment, as Greece by the Romans, and Teman, the native city of Eliphaz, as the Athens of Arabia Petrea"""". The Jewish Encyclopedia points out that the biblical genealogy and the references of the name ""Teman"": ""proves that Teman was one"
"the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally come from ""Ur of the Chaldees"" (Ur Kaśdim). If this city is identified with the ancient Sumerian city state of Ur, it would be within what would only ""many centuries later"" become the Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates. However, it must be pointed out that no evidence has been discovered indicating that the Chaldeans existed in Mesopotamia (or anywhere else in historical record) at the time Abraham (circa 1800–1700 BC) lived, the evidence instead shows the Chaldeans as arriving some eight or nine hundred years later.. Thus the"
"the authority of ‘Abdu l-Lāh ibn ‘Abbās, at-Tabari derived ""al-ʻUzzā"" from ""al-‘Azīz"" ""the Mighty"", one of the 99 ""beautiful names of Allah"" in his commentary on Qur'an 7:180. According to ""Easton's Bible Dictionary"", Uzza was a garden in which Manasseh and Amon were buried (2 Kings 21:18, 26). It was probably near the king's palace in Jerusalem, or may have formed part of the palace grounds. Manasseh may probably have acquired it from someone of this name. Another view is that these kings were culpable of idolatry and drew the attention of Ezekiel. In Judaic and Christian lore, Uzza has"
"Land of Goshen The Land of Goshen ( or ""Eretz Gošen"") is named in the Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph (), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It was located in the eastern Delta of the Nile. If the Septuagint reading ""Gesem"" is correct, the word, which in its Hebrew form has no known meaning, may mean ""cultivated""—comparing the Arabic root ""j-š-m"", ""to labor"". Egyptologists have suggested a connection with the Egyptian word ""qas"", meaning ""inundated land"" because Goshen was apparently"
"for acquisition by the Israelites through Sihon's occupation of it (as discussed in ). The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer identified Og, king of Bashan, introduced in with Abraham's servant Eliezer, introduced in and with the unnamed steward of Abraham's household in The Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer told that when Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees, all the magnates of the kingdom gave him gifts, and Nimrod gave Abraham Nimrod's first-born son Eliezer as a perpetual slave. After Eliezer had dealt kindly with Isaac by securing Rebekah to be Isaac's wife, he set Eliezer free, and God gave Eliezer his reward in this"
"the land, and so Moses grants them this region to live in. The half tribe of Manasseh are not mentioned until verse 33. David Jobling suggests that this is because Manasseh settled in land which previously belonged to Og, north of the Jabbok, while Reuben and Gad settled Sihon's land, which lay south of the Jabbok. Since Og's territory was not on the route to Canaan, it was ""more naturally part of the Promised Land"", and so the Manassites' status is less problematic than that of the Reubenites or Gadites. In the Book of Joshua (), Joshua affirms Moses' decision,"
"Genesis chapter 13, Abraham lived for a while in the Negev after being banished from Egypt. During the Exodus journey to the promised land, Moses sent twelve scouts into the Negev to assess the land and population. Later the northern part of biblical Negev was inhabited by the Tribe of Judah and the southern part of biblical Negev by the Tribe of Simeon. The Negev was later part of the Kingdom of Solomon (in its entirety, all the way to the Red Sea), and then, with varied extension to the south, part of the Kingdom of Judah. In the 9th"
"the ""Mar.tu"" (""tent dwellers"", later ""Amurru"", i.e. Amorite) country West of the Euphrates date from even earlier than Sargon, at least to the reign of the Sumerian king, Enshakushanna of Uruk, and one tablet credits the early Sumerian king Lugal-anne-mundu with holding sway in the region, although this tablet is considered less credible because it was produced centuries later. The archives of Ebla show reference to a number of biblical sites, including Hazor, Jerusalem, and as a number of people have claimed, to Sodom and Gomorrah mentioned in Genesis as well. Ebla and Amorites at Hazor, Kadesh (Qadesh-on-the-Orontes), and elsewhere"
"it is again said to be next to Luz, near Jericho, and part of the territory of the descendants of Joseph (that is Manasseh and Ephraim, cf. Joshua 16:4). In the book of Judges 1:22 ff the descendants of Joseph capture the city of Bethel, which again is said to have previously been called Luz. At Judges 4:5 the prophetess Deborah is said to dwell at Bethel under the palm-tree of Deborah (presumably a reference to Genesis 35:8, where another Deborah, the nurse of Jacob's mother Rebecca, is said to have been buried under a tree at Bethel). Bethel is"
"the Avvim."" Avim The Avim, Avvim () or Avvites of Philistia in the Old Testament were a people dwelling in Hazerim, or ""the villages"" or ""encampments"", on the south-west corner of the sea-coast. Their name is first used in in a description of the conquests that had taken place in the Land of Israel during the Israelite sojourn in Egypt. The passage relates that they were conquered by the Caphtorites who usurped their land. A trace of them is afterwards found in . These verses mentions that their land was considered part of the Canaanite land to be conquered by"