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UZ a district of Western Asia, to which the prophet Job belonged. (Job, 1.1.) It cannot be certainly determined where it was; hence, learned men have placed it in very different localities. Winer, who has examined the question, inclines to place it in the neighbourhood of Edom, adjoining Arabia and Chaldaea. (Biblisch. Realwörterb. s. v. Uz.) The people are perhaps represented in classical geography by the Αὐσῖται or Αἰσῖται of Ptolemy (5.19.2), a tribe who lived on the borders of Babylonia. In Genesis 10.23, Uz is called the son of Aram: hence Josephus says, Οὖσος κτίζει τῆν Γραχωνῖτιν καὶ Δαμασκόν (Antiq. 1.6.4); but there is no sufficient evidence to show that the “land of Uz” of Job is connected with Northern Mesopotamia.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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