The paronomasia (as found in both the above con- nections) of the names //"- or Uz and Buz is by no means so apparent in the Hebrew ("r". ""'): but it is quite in the oriental taste to give to relations these rhyming appellatives; comp. [shun and [shui (Gen. xlvi, 17>, Mehujael and Methusael (Gen. iv), Uzziel and Ozzi 1 1 I 'In- hi. vii, 7) ; and among th ■ Arabians, Harut and Marut, the rebel angels, Easan and I !>.- seyn, th • sons of Ali, etc. The Koran abounds in such homoioteleuti, and so pleasing are they to the
East.— Smith, s. v. See I'/..
\, ; :-ir.'.) The father of Ja'n- of Gad (1 Chron. v, 14). B.C. long
portance. His works are numerous, but the following Araba that they even call Cain and Abel Kabil and are the chiet : S:inn<j ,,,„ Judaica, in German (Basle, Habil (Weil's £3f. UgewU, p.23; also Southey's JVbfea 1603), Lat.(Hanov. 1604) :— Epitovu radicum Hebrm- ,„ Thalabd), or Habll and Habid (see Stanley, p. 413). car^tCkaMaicar. (Basle, 160< ) -.—Lexicon Hebraicum The same ldiora is f()und m Mabratta and the modern et Lhald. (Basle, 1607, 8vo; the best edition is that of ian!rU.,,r,., „f ti,„ ) 1676): — Thesaurus Grammaticus Ling. Heb.: — Inslitu- £ (S-pt I ;,,/." v iio Epistolaris Hebraic., etc. (Basle, 1603, 1610, 1629, do 0f the etc.): — De abbreviatwU Hebraorum (Basle, 1613 and ant(1 ji,():> 1640; the ed. of Herborn, 1708, is the best):— Biblia Htbrcea rabbinica (Basle, 1618, 1619, 1 vols, fol.):— Ti- berias, a Commentary on the Massorah (1665): — Lexi- con Chaldaicum Talmudicum et Rabbin. (Basle, 1639, fol.) • — Concordantue Bibliorum Hebraicce, finished and published by his son John (Basle, 1632 and 1636 ; Frankfort [abridged], 1676; Berlin, 1677). — Bicg. Univ. vi, 405 ; Landon, Eccl. Diet. s. v.
Btixtorf, John, Jr., son of the preceding, and, like him, an eminent Helraist, was born Aug. 13, 1599. Taught by his father, he made great proticien-
Bu'zi (Heb. Buzi', *T"2, prop, a Buzite; Sept. B.hC'i), a priest, the father of the prophet Ezckiel (Ezek. i, 3). B.C. ants 598.
Buz'ite (Heb., with the art., hab-BuzV, "" zr, ; Sept. 6 Bov£t), the patronymic of Elihu, one of Job's interlocutors (Job xxxii, 2, 6); prob. as being a de- scendant of Buz (q. v.), the relative of Abraham (< Jen. xxii, 21).
Byblus (Bv(3\oc in Steph. Byz., Bi/3Xo£ in Zo- zim. i, 58), a city of Phoenicia, seated on a rising
ev in youth. In 1630 he was made Hel rew professor ground near the sea, at the foot of Lebanon, between at Basle; 1647, professor of controversial theology; and Sidon and the promontory Theoprosopon (Strabo, xvi, 1654, of Old Test, literature. He is best known for his '^- 21 mil<*s fn,m Berytus I Pliny, v. 20 ; Pomp. Mela, defence of his father's notions on the antiquity of the '• J2. 3 ) I according to Ptolemy (v, lo, 4), <i, J 40 and vowel points in Hebrew, which appeared in his True ,33 5(5 ■ Jt was celebrated for the birth and worship tdtiisdepunctorum,vocaUum,etaccentuumorigmeetauc. of Adonis (A- v0, *"'■' Syrian Tammuz (Eustath. ad toritate (Basle, 1648), and other works. On this sub- Dmwjs. v, 912; Lucian.2) a Syra, p. 6; Nonnus, Dumye.
ject he had a bitter controversy with Capellus (q. v.). •". 109)- u seema f mentioned in Scripture as
Besides other works, be published Leah,,,, chuhhU-um '"the laml of t,,e ''■''>"< ^ ' "Inch was assigned to the it Svriacum (Basle, 1622, 4to). lie died Aug. 16, 1664. Israelites (Josh, xiii, 5), but of which they never took
possession. Its inhabitants were famous as "stone- Bustorf, John James, son of the last, was torn squarers» (] Kings v, 18), and supplied -caulkers- Sept. 14, 1645. He made rapid progress in his Ftudies for tlie Tyrian fleet ( Ezek< xxviL <IK Enylus, king under Hoffman and Wetstein, and learned Hebrew 0f Byblus, when he learned that his town was in pl- under his father, whom he succeeded in the professor's sessj'„„ of Alexander, cam.- up with his vessels and join- chair at Basle. In 1664 be was appointed adjunct to ed tl)e Macedonian tie -t ( Arrian. Anab. ii, 15, 8; 20, 1). his father, and afterward Hebrew professor. Travel- Byblus seems afterward to hive fallen into the hands ling through Holland and England, he was .very- 0f a petty tyrant, since Porapey is described as giving where received with distinction. He published noth- ;t freedom by beheading th • tyranl | Strabo, xvi, 755). ing of his own, but he edited the Tiberias and. Synagoga This town, then called Giblih (Abulfed. Tab. Syr. p.
94; Schultens' Index Vil. Salad, b. v. Sjibila), after having been. the see of a bishop (Behind. PalcBSt. p. 216), fell under Moslem rule (see Richter, WaUf. p. 118; Reise emer Wien rin. ii. 201 ; Michaelis, Suppl. p. 251 sq.; Hamelsweld, iii, 275). The modern town is named Jubeil, and is enclosed by a wall of about a mile and a half in circumference, apparently of the time of the Crusades (Chesney, Euphrat.E ped. i. 153).
It contains the remains of an ancient Roman theatre;
the "cavea" is nearly perfect, with its concentric
of his grandfather, and died in 1704.— Landon, s,
Buxtorf, John, 3d, nephew of the preceding, was born Jan. 8, 1663, and became Hebrew professor at Basle in 1704, and held the office with great credit till his death, 1732. He published Cataikcta PhUolog- ico-theolcgica, containing epistles from Casauhon, Ush- er, Walton, and other eminent Hebraists, to the Bux- torfs (Basle, 1707, 12mo).