Bible Location
Meaning: counsel; words · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
Uz was the land associated with Job, probably east or south-east of the land of Israel. It is important because it anchors the drama of Job in a real region at the edge of Israel's world. First appears in Job 1:1.1
Place meaning
counsel; words
Coordinates
30.03, 36.45
First appears
Job 1:1
AI summary: Uz matters because Job's story is not left floating in abstraction. The name places the book's moral and theological struggle in a remembered land tied to the eastern world and near Edom's horizon. The cross references present Uz as the homeland of Job and a regional setting for suffering, wisdom, and endurance.1
Place meaning
counsel; words
Latitude
30.03
Longitude
36.45
Bible references
3
Where Job lived (1:1; Jer. 25:20; Lam. 4:21), probably somewhere to the east or south-east of Palestine and north of Edom. It is mentioned in Scripture only in these three passages. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.