Genesis 22:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Huz. — The same name as Uz in Genesis 10:23; Genesis 36:28, the Hebrew in all cases being’Uz. For the various regions supposed to have been the land of Uz,” see Notes on Job 1:1; Jeremiah 25:20.

Buz. — Probably he was the ancestor of Elihu (Job 32:2); but Buz, in Jeremiah 25:23, seems to have been a region in Idumea.

Kemuel, the father of Aram. — He was not the progenitor of the Aramaic race, but the ancestor of the family of Ram, to which Elihu belonged (Job 32:2), Ram being the same as Aram (Keil). If so, Buz and Kemuel must have coalesced into one tribe.

Genesis 22:21

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