Dictionaries :: Uphaz

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Uphaz:

probably another name for Ophir (Jer 10:9). Some, however, regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Ghana), the south-eastern limit of the Punjaub.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Uphaz:

pure gold; gold of Phasis or Pison

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Uphaz:

u'-faz ('uphaz): A gold-bearing region, mentioned in Jer 10:9; Da 10:5, otherwise unknown. Perhaps in both passages Ophir, which differs in one consonant only, should be read. In the second passage, instead of "gold of Uphaz," perhaps "gold and fine gold" ('uphaz) should be read. The Jerusalem Talmud states that there were seven kinds of gold, good gold, pure, precious, gold of Uphaz, purified, refined, and red gold of Parvaim (2Ch 3:6). That of Uphaz, which is so called from the place from which it comes, resembles "flashes of fire fed with pitch" (M. Schwab, The Talmud of Jerusalem, V, 207 f).

Written by Thomas Hunter Weir

Nave's Topical Bible

Uphaz: A Country Famous for Gold

Jer 10:9; Dan 10:5

Uphaz: Reference Concerning

See OPHIR

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Uphaz:

(Jeremiah 10:9; Daniel 10:5). SEE [OPHIR].