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(sshyoo' uh) Personal name perhaps meaning, “sunken.” 1. Son of Abraham (Genesis 25:2 ) and possibly thought of as original ancestor of the Suhu mentioned in Assyrian sources as living on the Euphrates River below the mouth of the Chabur. 2. Home of Job's friend Bildad (Job 2:11 ), possibly to be identified with people mentioned in 1. or with an otherwise unknown tribe in the Syrian and Arabian desert, perhaps an offshoot of 1.

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Shuah'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hbd/​s/shuah.html. 1991.
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