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HebrewH5798Proper Noun (Masculine)

עֻזָּא

uz.za

13Occurrences
H5798Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Uzza or Uzzah, the name of five Israelites

or עֻזָּה; feminine of H5797 (עֹז); strength;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at ; son of: Abinadab (H0041); brother of: Eleazar (H0499H) and Ahio (H0283); also called Perez-uzzah at ; Also named: pe.rets uz.za (*פֶּרֶץ עֻזָּא *"Perez-uzzah" H6560H) § Uzza or Uzzah = "strength" 1) a man slain by Jehovah for touching the sacred ark 2) a Benjamite of the sons of ) ancestor of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel 4) the garden where kings Manasseh and Amon of Judah were buried

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

עֻזָּא appears 13 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Chronicles
5
2 Samuel
4
2 Kings
2
Ezra
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 13:7BSB

So they carried the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding the cart.

1 Chronicles 13:10BSB

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and He struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.

1 Chronicles 8:7BSB

Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who carried them into exile and who was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

2 Kings 21:26BSB

And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.

2 Samuel 6:6BSB

When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.