HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1085
בִּלְדַּד
bil.dad — Bildad
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Job.2.11 § Bildad = "confusing (by mingling) love" the second friend of Job
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Bildad
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H7747
שׁוּחִי
shu.chi — Shuhite
Someone descended from Shuh(?), first mentioned at Job.2.1 § Shuhite, of Shua "wealth" an ethnic appellative applied only to Bildad, the friend of Job
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Son of contention, one of Job’s friends. He is called “the Shuhite,” probably as belonging to Shuah, a district in Arabia, in which Shuah, the sixth son of Abraham by Keturah, settled (Gen. 25:2). He took part in each of the three controversies into which Job’s friends entered with him (Job 8:1; 18:1; 25:1), and delivered three speeches, very severe and stern in their tone, although less violent than those of Zophar, but more so than those of Eliphaz.
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.