Bible Names

Buz: meaning of the name

Buz means “despised; plundered.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Buz in Hebrew and Greek

בּוּז H938

Bûwz (booz) — Buz, the name of a son of Nahor, and of an Israelite

the same as H937 (בּוּז);

People named Buz in the Bible

Places named Buz

Buz in Scripture

“Buz” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 22:21

    Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

  • 1 Chronicles 5:14

    These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

  • Jeremiah 25:23

    Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,