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Shuah is the name of one of four minor Biblical figures. It is sometimes used as the name of a fifth. Their names are different in Hebrew, but they were all transliterated as "Shuah" in the King James Version. ==Genesis 25== Shuah (Hebrew: שׁוּחַ, pronounced "Shuakh", "ditch; swimming; humiliation"〔(''Hitchcock's Bible Dictionary'': ) Shuah〕 or "sinks down"〔(Brown-Driver-Briggs )〕) was the sixth son of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites, and Keturah whom he wed after the death of Sarah. He was the youngest of Keturah's sons; the others were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, and Ishbak.〔 Shuah in Greek is Σωυε, transliterated Soie.〔From the Septuagint and Brenton ()〕 Josephus gave his name as Σοῦος (Sous in Whiston).〔Josephus, Flavius, ''Antiquities'', 1.15.1 (Greek ) (Whiston )〕 Josephus writes of the brothers that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis,〔In this case the word is applied to the cave dwelling peoples of the Rift Valley〕 and the country of Arabia the Happy, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."〔 In all probability, Abraham tried to keep them apart from Isaac to avoid conflict while fulfilling God's commission to spread out and inhabit the globe.〔; 〕〔Josephus, Flavius, ''Antiquities'', 1.4.1-3〕 But unlike his brothers, Shuah seems to have turned northward and travelled into northern Mesopotamia, in what is now the northern region of modern day Syria. As evidenced by cuneiform texts, the land seems to have been named after him, being known as the land of ''Sûchu'' which lies to the south of ancient Hittite capital of Carchemish on the Euphrates river.〔''Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary'', Review and Herald Publishing Association (Washington, D.C., USA), 1953, p.367〕 The Bible also records that Job's friend Bildad was a ''Shuhite''.〔; 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shuah」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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