Uphaz

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Uphaz is probably another name for Ophir (Jer. 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 Punjab.

[edit] Mentions in the Bible

• 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:

[edit] References

• This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.