Zophar is a Naamathite; that is, he comes from a place named Naama. Naama or namah is a frequent term encountered by students of Judaism.  Numerous people and places in Israel and Judah are named after Naama.  It is also a name encountered by those who investigate the Shaivites, Vaishnavas or Hindu religion in general.  It means the divine name and meant the same to the Sabeans of Job's time.

     We perhaps have a filtering of the Hindu truism that the name of God is sweet on the tongue when we discover that the Ancient Hebrew Dictionary defines naama as sweetness, and not as name, though the modern Hebrew word for name is nomen, which shares the same NM consonantal root of Naama.

    We nonetheless even have a suggestion that Naama could be, or be involved with, the forbidden name of God. Etan Levine in The Aramaic Version of the Bible (Guyter , Berlin, NYU, 1988)  in his Targum, "The Name of God," says that ancient Jews believed that those who pronounced the name as it is spelled would have no share in the life to come, that the Samaritans pronounced God's name when they took an oath, that "when used as an incantation God's name is more lethal than a sword," and that if God's name were known by humans it could be used by them to tell the future.   While one may logically see these as exaggerated notions of "the infidel's power," they still provide us with information that links the fears of the ancient Jews with the Hindu tradition that was subverted by the Hebrews and turned into the Jewish orthodoxy.

    While these statements summarized by Levine may be seen on the one hand as examples of how the orthodox Jews exaggerated the dangers of the enemy's religion, they nonetheless suggest the Hindu origins of Naama, and even suggest why orthodox Jews would make a law stating that the name or Naama should not be uttered, for the word Naama is a part of many of the chants of Hindus.  The Samaritans, and the Jews of the tribe of Judah for a time, we know, like the vegetarian Hindus, regarded the cow as sacred [as is described in The Institutes of Vishnu (a book most easily found by Westerners in the Muller edition of The Sacred Books of the East)], and in fact worshipped the calf, and were at least in those respects attuned to the original Sabean form of Judaism.  So too, the phrase "horns of the altar" refers to the original Jewish/Sabean veneration of the cow and bull.  The cow was regarded as sacred by the ancient Jews, just as it was and has been by the Hindus.  The golden calf made by Aaron is a direct reflection of real religion of the ancient Jews, just as is the Nehustan, or copper or bronze serpent made by Moses. Moreover, the word incantation discussed by Levine and the word chant (and enchanted) have a common root.  So we can readily understand that it is the chants of the Hindus that were regarded as dangerous by the heretics who created orthodox Judaism.

     We may remark, for example, that the chant Om Naamah Shivayah is regarded as an invocation to Shiva.  It must be said that all forms of prayer, chanting and meditation, however, are a form of invoking divine aid or power. Moreover, telling the future is something more characteristic of Sabeans and many other Hindus who are not averse to the possibilities of clairvoyance and prophecy, in contrast to those who belong to orthodoxies such as those of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, who tell their adherents that they, the orthodoxy, or the hierarchy that represents the orthodox, know all that is  needed to be known, and that the seers of other religions lead them astray.  Whereas in the Book of Daniel clairvoyance is seen as a positive attribute of the vegetarian diet, other parts of the Old Testament regard clairvoyance in the same category as astrology, both of which were deemed as the practices of infidels and not the faithful.

   In any case, in context of the ongoing Sabean discussion of the main theme of the Book of Job, namely the bad karma of those who sacrifice animals, the term Naama in Naamathite can hardly be seen apart from the Sabean and Vaishnava (Vaishnavas are the followers of Krishna or Vishnu) concepts of the namah or naama, the divine name of Deity used in numerous Hindu chants. Namah, the divine name, is an integral part of the Sabean or Shaivite tradition, as well as of the Vaishnava and Sakti traditions of Hinduism.

   Once we establish that the counsellors of Job are Sabean, then we more readily understand that that the Book of Job is about four pure remnant vegetarian Jews, Zophar, Eliphaz, Bildad and Elihu, attempting to explain to Job, who is orthodox and carnivorous, that he suffers because he causes suffering, and because he has violated the vegetarian covenant of Genesis 1: 29-30.

    The Temanites are in fact associated with the travelers of Sheba, the city of Teman being a Sabean center as affirmed by James Hastings in his Dictionary of the Bible.  The name Sheba is simply a transliteration of Shiva. Job is criticizing his questioners, and telling them that theTemanites, who are companions of the Sabeans, the mainstream of which did not sacrifice animals, will not get the satisfaction of having a new convert, namely himself, Job, to add to their vegetarian fold.

"The caravans of Tema have looked, the traveling company of Sabeans have waited for them. They certainly are ashamed because they had trusted: they have come clear to the place and they get disappointed. For now you men have amounted to nothing. 6: 19-22

     Job recognizes that the Sabeans of Sheba and the caravans of Tema, which was a center for Sabeans (See James Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible), are comprised of vegetarians.  Even in his despairing state, Job gloats over the fact that his friends/counsellors have been unable to convert him to the vegetarian way, and likens them to Sabeans looking for an oasis in the desert.

      Teman is variously defined as a son of Eliphaz, the descendants being called Temanites. Tema is also defined as a son of Ashur.  Virtually all of the Ashur and Asherah words in the Old Testament are related to Asura, which was originally a Hindu name for almighty God or Deity, and only later in history came to mean demon.  The Asherah were vegetarian shrines destroyed by the heretical cattleman cult that became orthodox Judaism.  Tema was a city on the way to Damascus, a center for Sabeans, and their offspring the Essenes as well in the days of the New Testament.  Teman in Idumea was a center for the "sons of the east," who were, it was acknowledged, from the East, that is, India, which was a center for the vegetarian Sabeans also known as Shaivites.
 

     Remembering that ancient Hebrew is a language of consonants primarily, we can perhaps see in the Shaivite chant, OM ASTAMURTAYE NAMAHA (emphasis mine), a consonantal connection between the Tamu or Temanite Sabeans that is directly mentioned in chapter 6.
 
 

     Shiva, aka Sheba, Seba, Saba, Sheva, Tseva was acknowledged as a deity throughout the ancient world. The Shabbath or Sabbath, the feast days Shavu ot and T'ub Shevat were named after Shiva. So too, for those readers who have not read earlier pages of this study,  the feast day Channukah was named after the deity El Kana,  El Chana, or El Chanan. Kan and Chana are simply shorted forms of Kannan. Kannan was the Tamil Hindu name for Vishnu or Krishna. And Canaan was named after Kannan.  Canaan was first described as a sanctuary, a promised land of milk and honey, until the patriarchs who overthrew the Asherah shrines, and those who promoted the Judaism of animal sacrifices, realized that they had to make the vegetarian inhabitants of Canaan appear not as a people who were the same as the original Jews, but who were enemies. Therefore we have the changing views towards Canaan in the Torah.

   Who are the Shuites?

    In the Egyptian Pantheon, Shu was the father God and father of Seb, or Geb, Lord of the Earth. Seb is Seba or Siva, just as Ausur (Osiris) was Asura, or Asherah. Asura or Asherah was originally simply a name given to almighty God by the vegetarian Hindus.  Pillars were erected to Shu just as they were to Seb, Lord of the Earth, who was Sheba or Saba to the Ethiopians, inhabitants of Sheba, and Hebrews.  The destroyer aspect which is usually connected with Shiva is connected also with his father Shu.   Abraham, contradicting the Torah's injunction not to utter the names of false gods, names a son Shuah, after the God Shu, and his son Isaac after Isa, which is another name of Shiva, demonstrating that the Abraham of the orthodoxy is not the real Abraham of history. So the Shuites are a group of Hebrews descending from Shuah or his kin, and since Seb or Seba is an offspring of Shu as well, it is only natural that they would share religious views.

    The following definitions from James Strong's Hebrew/Chaldee Dictionary confirm the affinity between the Shuites and the Sabeans who followed Shiva the Destroyer.  To those who understand that the vegetarian Shiite Muslims contest the veracity of the Sunni's claim to Muslim legitimacy one must say that the Shiites appear to be in that Sabean lineage. The similarity between Shiite and Shuite is obvious enough. It is acknowledged even by Sunni Muslim scholars that Muhammad lived with Sabeans, and that he and the Quran acknowledged the legitimacy of the Sabeans as a true religious group.

    We shall see, through following the connections given us by Strong in his Exhaustive Concordance, that the relationship between Shua and Shiva is an essential one, and that shua and sheva words are sometimes seen as being interchangeable.  They both often share the meaning of destruction, or destructiveness.

7770 Shuwa, the same as 7769; Shud;, a Canaanite, Shua, Shuah.

7722 show' , show'ah, and sho'ah, to rush over; a tempest; by implication, devastation; desolate, desolation, destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.

     Looking at the relationship between Show, 7722, and Shav, 7723, below, we can therefore see the relationship between the Shuites and Sabeans, who worshipped Shiva as Hara the Destroyer.

7722 show' , show'ah, and sho'ah, to rush over; a tempest; by implication, devastation; desolate, desolation, destroy, destruction, storm, wasteness.

7723 shav' or shav, from the same as 7722 in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), ruin.

   The following Shu and Shav roots share the following meanings of to destroy, and a cry of hello as well.

7724 sheva, from 7723, to destroy.

7738 shavah, to destroy

7768, shava, a halloo, cry, riches.

7769 shuwa, from 7768, a halloo, cry aloud, shout.
 
 

  The following definition of Shebaiy, meaning a Shebaite, or a descendant of Sheba, given the consonantal essence of ancient Hebrew, is virtually identical to the commonly known term, Shaivite.

7615 Shebaiy, from 7614, a Shebaite, or descendant of Sheba; Sabean.

And Strong himself sees Shua, and Sheba as sometime variants of each other. There are, of course, numerous Shua words in Hebrew such as Joshua, Jehoshua, Elishua. Shuah. Like Jah, and like Sheba to the original vegetarian Jews venerating the Shabbath named after Sheba, Shu, and Shuah and all the sheba and sheva words, were used to show the veneration had by the earliest Jews to their deities. The notion that Abraham denounced the religion of his father Terah, who worshipped many gods, is shown to be false, because Abraham named Isaac after Isa, Isa being another name of Shiva. And Abraham named another son Shuah after the father of Seb (Seba), Shu.

  The following definition of Shebaiy, or Shebaite,  is an easily seen transliteration of Shaivite.  We remember that the Lord of the Sabbath and the Vegetarian Covenant with all creatures, is introduced in the very first chapter of "Genesis." The Deity who rests on the seventh day is the Lord of the Sabbath. And thus, it is easy to fill in the spaces: though named as God in most translations of the Torah, the Lord of the Sabbath is in fact Sheba or Shiva, also known as Pasupati, Lord of Creatures, and Protector of Cattle, and thus the logic of the vegetarian covenant of Genesis 1: 20-30.

7615 Shebaiy, from 7614, a Shebaite, or descendant of Sheba; Sabean.

The Sabean Background of the Book of Job

Sabeans are followers of Saba or Sheba, aka Shiva.

    To the original Israelites, whose name itself is taken from Shiva's name Is, or Isa, Job the cattleman was indeed an "enemy," and as an enemy of Shiva, he is "persecuted" by Shiva, who is described as Pasupati, Lord of Creatures, also as Protector of Cattle, and as Hara, the Destroyer.  Shiva was known at Haran, a center of Sabeanism, and the birthplace of Abram. Haran was named after Shiva as Hara. And throughout the ancient world of Ethiopia and the east in general, as Saba, Seba or Sheba, and his followers as Sabeans (See James Strong's Dictionary of the Bible: "Sheba").   While scholars admit that the Sabeans play a meaningful part in the early narrative of Job, when they destroy the dwellings of Job's sons, kill his servants, and free the animals that had been enslaved and were to be sacrificed, they are reluctant to admit, or are ignorant of the fact, that all four of Job's interrogators have a Sabean background.
 
 

  The name of  Elihu, Job's final questioner before he confronts God, is a combination of Eli, meaning God, and Hu, a sacred sound and word signifying the Divine He to the Hindus.  Search for Hu on the Cologne Digital Lexicon of Sanskrit and English on the web and one comes to the astonishing (to some) revelations that the terms, Jehovah, Jehudhi (meaning Jew) and even Jew itself (a variant of Hu) were originally Sanskrit terms.
 

    Moreover, Elihu comes from the family of Ram, hero (of one of India's main epics, the Ramayana, who became a Hindu deity.  Moreover, Canaan which later became Palestine abounded with people and places named after Rama as well as Sheba or Sheva. Numerous Hebrews named their children after Rama and Shiva.  This included even the lineage of Noah, to whom God supposedly gave the  covenant sanctioning carnivorism. From an orthodox point of view, it is totally illogical that Noah's lineage, children of the very person to whom God sanctioned carnivorism, would then immediately name their lineage after vegetarian deities who were considered idols and false gods by orthodox Judaism, but, of course, they did, as testified to by the Old Testament itself, and the fact that they did is just one more nail in the coffin of orthodox Judaism, which is not really a religion, but a deviation away from religion concocted by rich cattlemen in an attempt to sanction their bloodshed and oppression by scriptures saying God sanctioned such actions.

  Though those who revised the Torah, or  Old Testament went through a great deal of effort to portray a God who sanctioned the bloody atrocities and the poisonous, flesh-rich, cholesterol-clogged diet of the patriarchal cattlemen, to the original Jews, and to the pure remnant of Judaism following the vegetarian covenant, the vegetarian diet and compassion for God's creatures practiced by the followers of Saba, the Lord of the Sabbath, were well known. These followers of Shiva were called the Sabaeans, and it is they who freed Job's animals, for Job was a cattleman whose business it was to enslave and kill the cattle so they would be sold for meat. Job's name, as the Hebrew Dictionary section of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance shows, was taken from a root ijob meaning a "hated one."

    To the original Jews, Abel, whose name became the root of the word evil or aval in ancient Hebrew, like Job, were villains, not heroes, as they were made out to be by those who overthrew the vegetarian Asherah and instituted a carnivorous elitist religion in its place has has become known as orthodox Judaism.

   And Eli is a form of the name of God in Sanskrit just as El and Eli are in ancient Hebrew. And Hu, considered a Divine vibration among Hindus, refers to the divine He in Sanskrit, and, as part of the name Jehu in Judaism is a shortened form of the name of Jehovah. Je = Jah = God.  Hu = He. Entry 1931 in the Hebrew/Chaldee Dictionary of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance is Huw, hoo, the feminine of which is hiy, which means he; Hu is the divine He in Sanskrit, and a sacred sound.
 

Additional Sources: Crossroads on line, Nave's Topical Bible, Smith's Bible Dictionary.