Bible Names

Uphaz: meaning of the name

Uphaz means “pure gold; gold of Phasis or Pison.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Uphaz in Hebrew and Greek

אוּפָז H210

ʼÛwphâz (oo-fawz') — Uphaz, a famous gold region

perhaps a corruption of H211 (אוֹפִיר);

Places named Uphaz

Uphaz in Scripture

“Uphaz” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Jeremiah 10:9

    Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

  • Daniel 10:5

    Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: