Uphaz

Uphaz appears only twice, and both times it is a source of fine gold. Jeremiah describes an idol overlaid with silver from Tarshish and gold “from Uphaz,” the work of craftsmen, yet only a thing made by hands. Daniel sees a man clothed in linen, his loins “girded with fine gold of Uphaz,” a glimpse of splendor in a vision. Where Uphaz lay is not told, and readers have guessed in more than one direction. Ophir is the better-known gold land, and the verses grouped here largely concern it. Read Jeremiah 10:1-10 for the first mention.

10 verses

Genesis

Genesis 10:29

And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.

1 Kings

1 Kings 9:28

And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

1 Kings 10:11

And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 29:4

Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:

2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 8:18

And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

Job

Job 22:24

Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

Job 28:16

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Psalms

Psalms 45:9

Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

Isaiah

Isaiah 13:12

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 10:9

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Probably another name for Ophir (Jer. 10:9). Some, however, regard it as the name of an Indian colony in Yemen, southern Arabia; others as a place on or near the river Hyphasis (now the Ghana), the south-eastern limit of the Punjaub.

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(Jeremiah 10:9; Daniel 10:5) [OPHIR]

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary and Smith's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.