Uzal
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,...
Read More
Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,...
Read More
Uzal in the Hebrew Bible, descendant of Joktan whose clan
supposedly settled in Saudi Arabia. He was believed to be the
founder of an Arabian tribe.
Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and
Hazarmaveth and Jerah and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah (Genesis
10:26-27)...
Read More
u'-zal ('uzal): Sixth son of Joktan (Gen 10:27; 1 Ch 1:21).
Uzal as the name of a place perhaps occurs in Ezek 27:19.
the Revised Version (British and American) reads, "Vedan and
Javan traded with yarn for thy wares." Here an obscure
verbal form, me'uzzal, is taken to mean "something spun,"
"yarn." But with a very slight change we may read me'...
Read More
-Son of Joktan
Ge 10:27; 1Ch 1:21...
Read More
(separate), the sixth son of Joktan, Ge 10:27; 1Ch 1:21 whose
settlements are clearly traced in the ancient name of San'a,
the capital city of the Yemen (a district of Arabia), which
was originally Awzal. From its position in the centre of the
best portion of that kingdom it must always have been an
important city. (San'a is situated about 150...
Read More
a wanderer, a descendant of Joktan (Gen. 10:27; 1 Chr. 1:21),
the founder apparently of one of the Arab tribes; the
name also
probably of the province they occupied and of their
chief city....
Read More
Joktan's sixth son (Genesis 10:27; 1 Chronicles 1:21). The
capital of the Yemen (Arabia Felix) was originally Awzal (now
San'a), anciently the most flourishing of Arab communities,
its rivals being Sheba and Sephar. The Greek and Roman writers
(Pliny, N. H. 12:16) call it Auzara, a city of the Gebanitae.
Uzal is situated on an elevation, with ...
Read More
