Bible Dictionary
Shuhite
A Shuhite was a descendant or inhabitant of Shuah. Bildad, one of Job’s friends, is repeatedly called the Shuhite.
Definition
A Shuhite was a descendant or inhabitant of Shuah. The designation is used especially of Bildad, one of Job’s friends. The precise location of the people associated with the name cannot be determined with certainty.
Biblical Usage
Bildad is repeatedly called the Shuhite in the Book of Job. The title identifies his descent or regional association rather than describing a separate office.
Historical Background
The supplied material places a possible Shuhite people west of Chaldea and bordering Arabia, near both sides of the Euphrates, but also states that the location cannot be definitely established.
Scripture References
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A designation of Bildad (Job 2:11), probably because he was a descendant of Shuah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(decendant of Shuah). This ethnic appellative “Shuhite” is frequent in the book of Job, but only as the apithet of one person, Bildad The local indications of this book point to a region on the western side of Chaldea, bordering on Arabia; and exactly in this locality, above Hit and on both sides of the Euphrates, are found, in the Assyrian inscriptions, the Tsahi, a powerful people. It is probable that these were the Shuhites.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>shoo'-hit (shuchi): Cognomen of Bildad, one of Job's friends (Job 2:11; 8:1; 18:1; 25:1; 42:9). The place referred to cannot be definitely located.</p><p>See BILDAD; SHUAH.</p>