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uz
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What does uz mean?
pronoun
- Alternative spelling of us (“me”).
proper noun
- Initials of Ukrainian Railways or Ukrzaliznytsia.
- A region mentioned in the Bible whose exact geographical location is unknown.
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“Well, dey’s reasons. But you wouldn’ tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?”
About this time, Rebekah sent her nurse Deborah, the daughter of Uz, accompanied by two of Isaac's servants, to Jacob, to urge him to return to his father's house, now that his fourteen years of service had come to an end.
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But how could this admirable and poetic man ever have descended into the Valley of Humiliation, have felt with the man of Uz—as she herself had felt two or three years ago—“My soul chooseth strangling and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live alway.”
And then i’ the front, of course a saint or two-- Saint John, because he saves the Florentines, Saint Ambrose, who puts down in black and white The convent’s friends and gives them a long day, And Job, I must have him there past mistake, The man of Uz (and Us without the z, Painters who need his patience).
Dr. Ebeling reads ênâ-u at the end of the line, but the sign is broken; perhaps the traces may prove to be those of uznâ u, "his ears", in which case li-bit uz(nâ-u) might be rendered either as "surface of his ears", or as "base (lit. foundation) of his ears".