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UZ, or more correctly Huz (). A country and a people near the Sabeans and the Chaldees (; ; ); accessible to the Temanites, the Shuhites (), and the Buzites (). The Edomites once possessed it (; ). Suited for sheep, oxen, asses, and camels (). From an inscription of Esarhaddon it appears there were in central Arabia, beyond the jebel Shomer, about the modern countries of upper and lower Kaseem, two regions, Bazu and Khazu, answering to Buz and Huz. Uz therefore was in the middle of northern Arabia, not far from the famous district of the Nejd. Ptolemy mentions the Aesitae (related to "Uz") as in the northern part of Arabia Deserta, near Babylon and the Euphrates. The name occurs
(1) in as son of Aram and grandson (as "son" means in ) of Shem;
(2) as son of Nahor by Milcah ();
(3) as son of Dishan and grandson of Seir (). Evidently the more ancient and northerly members of the Aramaic family coalesced with some of the later Abrahamids holding a central position in Mesopotamia, and subsequently with those still later, the Edomites of the S.