Uphaz

We read of the gold of Upham, perhaps the same as Opher: the certain man, Daniel) saw in a vision, had his loins apparently girded with it. (Dan. x. 5.) The church speaks of her Lord’s head, as of this gold. (Song v. 11.) And John’s account of the Lord Jesus Christ is much to the same amount. (Rev. i. 13, &c.) What sublime descriptions they all are of the glories of his person. But how infinitely short of what Christ really is!

U´phaz, a country from which gold was obtained (Jer 10:9; Dan 10:5). It is generally supposed to be a corruption of Ophir.

A region producing fine gold, Jer 10:9 Dan 10:5 . In Hebrew it differs from Ophir by only one letter; and it is thought to denote the same region.\par

U’phaz. Jer 10:9; Dan 10:5. See Ophir.

Jer 10:9; Dan 10:5. Ophir, of which Uphaz is a corruption. (See OPHIR.)

[U’phaz]

Some place from whence gold was brought. Jer 10:9; Dan 10:5; supposed according to some ancient versions to be the same as OPHIR, q.v.

UPHAZ.—A supposed country or region mentioned in Jer 10:9, Dan 10:5, as a source of gold. Probably the word is miswritten for Ophir (wh. see).

J. F. McCurdy.

ū´faz (אוּפּז, ’ūphāz): A gold-bearing region, mentioned in Jer 10:9; Dan 10:5, otherwise unknown. Perhaps in both passages Ophir, which differs in one consonant only, should be read. In the second passage, instead of “gold of Uphaz,” perhaps “gold and fine gold” (’ūphāz) should be read. The Jerusalem Talmud states that there were seven kinds of gold, good gold, pure, precious, gold of Uphaz, purified, refined, and red gold of Parvaim (2Ch 3:6). That of Uphaz, which is so called from the place from which it comes, resembles “flashes of fire fed with pitch” (M. Schwab, The Talmud of Jerusalem, V, 207 f).