Shuah
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.
Shuah (Hebrew: שׁוּחַ, pronounced "Shuakh", "ditch; swimming; humiliation"[1] or "sinks down"[2]) was the sixth son of Abraham (the patriarch of the Israelites) and Keturah, whom Abraham had wed after the death of Sarah.[3][4] He was the youngest of Keturah's sons; the others were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, and Ishbak.[3]
Shuah in Greek is Σωυε, transliterated Soie.[5] Josephus gave his name as Σοῦος (Sous in Whiston).[6]
Josephus writes of the brothers that "Abraham contrived to settle them in colonies; and they took possession of Troglodytis,[7] and the country of Arabia Felix, as far as it reaches to the Red Sea."[6] It is a traditional view among believers in the story that Abraham tried to keep his other sons apart from Isaac to avoid conflict. 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.
The Bible also records that Job's friend Bildad was a Shuhite.