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Uphaz
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u'-faz (pure gold; gold of Phasis or Pison)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
Probably another name for Ophir ( Jeremiah
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 Dictionary of Bible Names
pure gold; gold of Phasis or Pison
Smith's Bible Dictionary
( Jeremiah
10:9 ; Daniel
10:5 )
[OPHIR]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
u'-faz ('uphaz):
A gold-bearing region, mentioned in Jeremiah
10:9 ; Daniel
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 (2
Chronicles 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).
Thomas Hunter Weir
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