Bible Dictionary

Buz

Contempt. (1.) The second son of Nahor and Milcah, and brother of Huz (Gen. 22:21). Elihu was one of his descendants (Job 32:2). (2.) One of the chiefs of the tribe of Gad (1 Chr. 5:14). (3.) A distr…

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

Contempt. (1.) The second son of Nahor and Milcah, and brother of Huz (Gen. 22:21). Elihu was one of his descendants (Job 32:2). (2.) One of the chiefs of the tribe of Gad (1 Chr. 5:14). (3.) A district in Arabia Petrea (Jer. 25:23).

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(contempt).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

BUZ (contempt), a territory:perhaps named from Buz, and probably in northern Arabia. Jer 25:23; Gen 22:21.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

BUZ (contempt). 1. A son of Abraham's brother Nahor. Gen 22:21. 2. A Gadite. 1 Chr 5:14.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

despised; plundered